cold fusion

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Nuclear fusion at or near room temperature.
  2. A hypothetical and now discredited form of nuclear fusion involving electrolysis of heavy water.
  3. Muon-catalyzed fusion
  4. A method of synthesizing superheavy elements, where the product nucleus has a relatively low excitation energy of ~10 to 20 MeV.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

cold fusion

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Translations

Arabic: اِنْدِمَاج بَارِد Belarusian: хало́дны я́дзерны сі́нтэз Bulgarian: студ́ен термоя́дрен си́нтез Catalan: fusió freda Chinese Mandarin: 冷核聚變 /冷核聚变 Chinese Mandarin: 冷聚變 /冷聚变 Chinese Mandarin: 冷融合 Czech: studená fúze Danish: kold fusion Dutch: koude kernfusie Finnish: kylmäfuusio French: fusion froide German: kalte Fusion Hebrew: היתוך קר Italian: fusione fredda Japanese: 常温核融合 Macedonian: студена фузија Polish: zimna fuzja Portuguese: fusão a frio Russian: холо́дный термоя́дерный си́нтез Russian: холо́дный си́нтез Serbo-Croatian: хладна фузија Serbo-Croatian: hladna fuzija Slovak: studená fúzia Slovene: hladna fuzija Spanish: fusión fría Swedish: kall fusion Ukrainian: холо́дний си́нтез Ukrainian: холо́дний я́дерний си́нтез
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