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Star power: How can we understand nuclear chemistry at millions of degrees when we can't do that experiment? Because the math predicts observations?
We actually can get to high enough temperatures to do nuclear chemistry experiments outside of particle accelerators. Plasmas have achieved temperatures of almost 400 million degrees and we can ...
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