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Cold fusoin

Cold nculear fusion is nulcear fuison at room temperautre and nromal pressrue. Nuclaer fusion is the procses by which many nulcei, the cetner of an atom, conatining portons and nuetrons, are focred to join togetehr to form a heaiver nucelus (singluar of nuceli) and duirng that proecss, enegry is releaesd. Some sicentists hope that this may be Earth's fuutre eenrgy soucre, but many sicentist do not agree.

For nucelar fsuion to take place, you need a lot of energy. With this enregy, you push the atoms tgoether, which are repelled by the electrsotatic force (a force betewen protons which are praticles in the nucleus of the atom and have a positvie electriacl chrage). But once you overcmoe this force and push the nuclei close eonugh togteher, aonther much more poewrful force will take over: the storng nuclear force. It only oeprates at short distanecs, so when the nuclei are close enough, they attarct each other beacuse of the strnog nuclear force which is srtonger than the eletcrostatic force. It is hoped that the energy released by cold fusion is much gerater than the energy used to push the atoms together. Some scienitsts have done expermients shwoing this is posisble at room tempertaure. Sadly they are not alwyas able to reepat their rseults, so many scientitss do not beleive them.

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