Imagine that your car is powered by a fusion engine in which the following reaction occurs: 321H42He

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Imagine that your car is powered by a fusion engine in which the following reaction occurs: 321H→42He + 11H + 10n. The masses are 21H (2.0141 u), 42He (4.0026 u), 11H (1.0078 u), and 10n (1.0087 u). The engine uses 6.1 × 10-6 kg of deuterium 21H fuel. If one gallon of gasoline produces 2.1 × 109 J of energy, how many gallons of gasoline would have to be burned to equal the energy released by all the deuterium fuel?


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Physics

ISBN: 978-0470879528

9th edition

Authors: John D. Cutnell, Kenneth W. Johnson

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