Could you make proton star material using deuterium?
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when a solid is formed with hydrogen the way it is formed is by covalent/ionic bonding.  \nBecause there would be no electron covalent bonds would not be able to be formed.  also because every thing would be positivly charged it would not be possible for ionic bonds to form.  \n\nthe definition of a plasma is exactly what you are looking at.  It is the fourth state of matter, namely it is when the electrons are dissasociated from the nucli.  No matter what tempature you had it would remain a plasma.  even if it was cooled to abolute zero and pressurised with electrostatic feilds it would still remain in a gas like form for there is no way for it to solidify.  The repultion of the electric feilds would be far to great to over come the neuclear forces that would be needed to make an isotope of heleium with no nutrons.  \n\none might imagine that if you did cool it and compress it a whole bunch it would maintain some shape, but then quantum mechanics take over and the protons would be switching possitions constantly.  \n\nalso the possitive charge of the proton star would be incredible, remeber that it takes only one in a thousand electron to make a substance very highly electricly charged... we are talk a thousand times more than that it is impossible to even imagine what the effects would be
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I have this very object. My foolish neighbor calls it an air humidifier, like he knows anything, ( he thinks we landed on the moon, I know crazy)\n     You can borrow it, but you have to come at night. My house is the one covered in tin foil and cloaked in the star trek special edition invisibility shield, with extra force field protons.
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the fundamental particle is hydrogen \n\nso all the stars r made of H2\n\nthe hydroen atoms undergo nuclear fusion to form helium \n\nn other higher elmts\n\nthat's wat the secret of universe
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The sun is made of hydrogen.
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How exactly are you splitting the H from the O?   Under high pressure and spraying?  I don't see how that could possibly work.  Cold fusion also has a huge potential for cheap, clean, renewable energy.  But much like what you are talking about, it simply isn't possible with the current technology.  If splitting H and O was so cheap and simple it would be done all of the time.  Electrolysis works, but the energy input makes it unrealistic for creating liquid hydrogen as an energy source.  If you truely have a way to spit the H20 molecule cheaply and efficiently you'd already be a multi-billionaire.
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Stars are balls of gas, They burn by converting lighter elements into heavier elements.  The lightest element is hydrogen, but stars make heavier elements as the burn, so really old stars have elements as dense a Iron!\n\nHeres a link to the periodic table:\n\nhttp://www.dayah.com/periodic/\n\nAll the elements between hydrogen and iron could be in a star.\n\nBut the "Easy" answer is to say Hydrogen and Helium!
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Potential of Hydrogen.
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2 protons (hydrogen nuclei) slam together and form a positron, a deuterium nuclei (heavy hydrogen) and a neutrino. The positron immeditally slams into an electron and turns into energy. The deuterium nuclei may continue and slams into another proton, this time forming a He3 nuclei and another neutrino. Two He3 nuclei can fuse to form 1 He4 and 2 protons. \nSo it´s 4H -> 1 He + neutrions + energy
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Check this link:\n\nhttp://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:Hb_4_LKfVd4J:www.hydrogen.energy.gov/pdfs/progress05/vi_b_1_wu.pdf+how+to+make+sodium+borohydride%3F&hl=en&gl=in&ct=clnk&cd=7&client=firefox-a
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A star by the burning of hydrogen into helium can only go so far into making the heavier elements. It takes a supernova explosion to make the really heavy elements. These are blown out into space where new stars may form and use these heavier elements, like our sun and earth.
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Actually, Glenn Seaborg a nobel prize winner in chemistry has reported making small amount of lead into gold back in the 1950's.  However the Gold made by nuclear reaction is not the "gold" you imagine.  First of all, the gold would be so radioreactive that you would not want to touch it unprotected.  Second, it will be so unstable that it will turn back into lead given short amount of time.  Finally, the energy requred to bombard protons to the lead to change it into gold will outweigh to profit you could make even if you made perfectly stable gold.  \n\nToday particle accelerators routinely transmute elements. A charged particle is accelerated using electrical and/or magnetic fields. In a linear accelerator, the charged particles drift through a series of charged tubes separated by gaps. Every time the particle emerges between gaps, it is accelerated by the potential difference between adjacent segments. In a circular accelerator, magnetic fields accelerate particles moving in circular paths. In either case, the accelerated particle impacts a target material, potentially knocking free protons or neutrons and making a new element or isotope. Nuclear reactors also may used for creating elements, although the conditions are less controlled. \n\nIn nature, new elements are created by adding protons and neutrons to hydrogen atoms within the nuclear reactor of a star, producing increasingly heavier elements, up to iron (atomic number 26). This process is called nucleosynthesis. Elements heavier than iron are formed in the stellar explosion of a supernova. In a supernova gold may be made into lead, but not the other way around.  \n\nI hope this helps.
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Hey Bob,\n\nApparently, Yes, it can be done.  it can be a lot easier than you might think as well.  If you hold a flow of hydrogen to the carburettor, the hydrogen will be drawn into the chambers and combust, powering the engine.  There are a couple of major problems with this though.  First, you need a source of hydrogen, which means driving around in an H bomb effectively.  If you were to use water, and make hydrogen that way, the vehicle would have to be very very big to produce enough hydrogen to allow the combustion to work, so even though it can be done in theory, it's not safe or is not feasible just yet.\nAs soon as someone works out how to get the hydrogen from water more efficiently, they will probably be the new Einstein (or shot by oil tyrants)
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Commercially, helium isn't made from hydrogen. Helium is found  alonside natural gas in certain natural gas wells. It's actually a fairly limited natural resource.\n\nIt's true that special nuclear reactors can fuse hydrogen nuclei into helium nuclei, and this reaction takes place in the sun as well. However, the amount produced this way on earth is miniscule.
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A star forms in a nebula which is a very large cloud of hydrogen gas.  hydrogen is the basic building block of the universe.  A prostar is formed when a portion of the hydrogen in the nebula is formed into a hydrogen ball by the pull of gravity.  When the molecules become close enough the friction of their bumping together causes heat.  If it were not for this heat production the prostar would be pulled into a clump by the force of gravity.  Once enough heat is formed in the core of the prostar (about 2 million degrees) hydrogen nuclei join together to form a helium molecule.  The reaction is 6 H >1 He + 2H  That means 6 hydrogens are needed for the process to proceed, but two hydrogen are reclaimed on the other side so the net rxn is 4h > 1 He.  This reaction is possible because of entropy or the conservation of energy.  It takes less energy to maintain one atom of Helium than 4 atoms of hydrogen.  In the sun this energy savings is 0.6% which radiates to the surface and is expelled as sunlight.  Within the Sun about 745,000 tons of Hydrogen is converted to Helium every second.  The balance of the pull of gravity (collapse) and the heat from nuclear fusion (expansion) keeps the star's size and shape constant.  Once this process begins the prostar becomes a star.  There are other nuclear fusion reactions untill the formation of iron.  This step does not give off energy but requires energy input.  At this step stars begin to cool and become a red giant.  This is the first step in the death of a star, resulting in the formation of a nova or a supernova depending upon the size of the star.  a smaller star will form a white dwarf and the larger star will form a neutron star or if large enough it may collapse into a black hole.  Gravity is the attraction of particle to particle between two objects.  This is how a black hole works.  It has an extreemly strong gravitational pull because the core is composed of a very large amount of compacted particles and each of those particles contribute to the gravitational attraction.
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Well you can use spectroscopy to find out the composition of distant objects in space.  IE if a star emits light near (usually a slight red shift from distant objects) the emission lines of helium or mercury you could conclude that those elements are present.\n\nMike
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i wont point you to a link :)\n\nNuclear Synthesis is the process which forms newer heavier elements (e.g. iron ) from lighter elements ( e.g. hydrogen ).\n\nit does NOT occur naturally on Earth and is known to occur within stars during the final stages in their lifetimes. \n\nelements differ from each other by the weight of their nucleus ( center )  with hydrogen being the simplest with a weight of 1 .\n\ncombining 4 hydrogens will make  helium and this process is what the sun uses to burn.  in turn,  helium can be "fused" to make other heavier elements such as oxygen and carbon for example. ( see the periodic table ).\n\nthe process of fusing atoms requires great temperatures and pressures that not are present on earth ( except in thermonuclear bombs ! ) .  \n\nit is thought that all the elements were once created in the center of the many stars !\n\nin essence, everything ( except for hydrogen ) is made of star stuff !\n\nhope i resolved your confusion.
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If it were posible for the neutronium to exist in a plane, then yes, I think so. However, neutronium is so dense that its own gravity will pull it into a sphere. If you got close enough to look at it, it would pull you in and you would be a (very thin) stain on the surface.\n\nNeutron stars are supposed to be made mostly of neutronium. If two collided or got close enough for their tides to pull one apart, then small pieces might be left. But neutronium is supposed to be very unstable. It is only its own gravity that binds the electrons and protons together so that they merge and lose their identities. \n\nFor very massive neutron stars (just short of being black holes, I guess) their inner layers are supposedly a quark-gluon soup. \n\nFor very small ones or pieces broken off, if that is possible, if there is not enough gravity to keep the particles together, the electrons and protons will regain their identities and the nuclear interctive forces will reassert themselves, and the mesons will begin to interact between the electrons and protons again,. What would happen is that the small piece of neutronium would erupt in a burst of energy and high energy particles. \n\nS/F writers like H. Beam Piper (in the 60's) postulated that we would learn to control nuclear forces like we learned to control electricity and have (what he called ) 'collapsium' plated spacecraft, where the outer shells of the electrons were in contact with the nuclei (what we would now call 'degenerate matter'.) Such a plating (a tiny fraction of an inch thick) would protect like several feet of lead shielding. It would also weigh more than many feet of lead shielding! (He also proposed that we would have antigravity by now.)\n\nTheoretically, a sphere of neutronium would be perfectly reflective, and the noted s/f author Larry Niven used that feature in his classic story There Is A Tide (1968, Galaxy magazine.)\n\n15 NOV 06, 1632 hrs, GMT.