Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of a proposed category of celestial objects that undergo nuclear fusion in their cores at some point during their lifetimes, the least massive of which are about 13 times Jupiter's mass and sustain the fusion of deuterium atoms into heavier elements.
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- noun astronomy a
celestial body that through self-gravity , is able to performnuclear fusion within its core, at any point in its life. These includestars , stellar remnants, andbrown dwarfs .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Mr. Hull maintains a list of fusioneers, including Jon Rosenstiel, a 65-year-old retired mechanical engineer for motocross-racing teams, and Carl Willis, a 27-year-old doctoral student at Ohio State University, who keeps his fusor just a few feet from his bed.
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Mr. Ligon brought with him a model of a fusor that he called "Dog and Pony Show I."
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Richard Hull In his home lab, Richard Hull sits in front of his current fusor, the fourth he's built since 1997.
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The department determined that Mr. Olson's fusor wasn't a "registerable radiation machine" and posed no hazard, according to a spokeswoman.
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"Basically, it's almost like, over the gates of hell, 'Abandon hope all ye who enter,'" says Richard Hull, who built his first working fusor nearly a decade ago.
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Mr. Sanns says his fusor isn't registered, but he studiously monitors radiation emissions and doesn't run it at high enough levels to generate x-rays that can penetrate its steel shell.
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Next big future points to a fusor project that is looking to generate positive energy normally impossible for fusor devices by also sending in a pressurized wave…pretty interesting, albeit complicated.
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He built his own fusor in "literally 31 days," he says, and is now preparing to build his fifth.
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A couple of years ago, when a Detroit-area high-school student named Thiago Olson built a fusor, the Michigan Department of Community Health contacted him to examine it.
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