Idk how I got onto this but I was just googling shit and I was wondering how we are running out of helium. I read that helium is the one non-renuable element on this planet because it comes from the result of radioactive decay. But from my memory and the D- I got in highschool chemistry, helium is number 2 on the periodic table of elements and hydrogen is number 1, so why can’t we just take a fuck ton of hydrogen, do some chemistry shit and turn it into helium? I know it’s not that simple I just don’t understand why it wouldn’t work.
Edit: I get it, it’s nuclear fusion which is physics, not chemistry. My grades were so back in chemistry that I didn’t take physics. Thank you for explaining it to me!
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Hydrogen is made of a proton and an electron. Proton has a positive charge, and is the more massive of the two, electron has a negative charge.
Magnets attract when charges are different and push off when charges are the same. Try this with your usual magnets and see how you can squeeze the same sides together.
The force of attraction or repulsion grows way more the closer are the charged objects. Proton is very small so the force to squeeze two of them together is enormous – the sun does it, but only at the very center and very slowly – it takes billions of years for Sun to squeeze all protons together in its core.
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