Nuclear fusion, the energy source at the Sun, hydrogen bombs, and fusion reactors, occurs much more readily when the average kinetic energy of me alums is high—that is, at high temperatures. Suppose you want me atoms in your fusion experiment to have average kinetic energies of
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