Question 3 • CR SS Chemistry S2 2018/19 2026
Nuclear fusion requires positively charged nuclei to get extremely close together, but their electrical repulsion pushes them apart. Overcoming this repulsion requires very high energy, so fusion has a high activation-energy barrier. Nuclear fission can occur when a heavy nucleus absorbs a neutron, which has no electric charge, so the answer is nuclear fusion.
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