why we can’t just take 2 hydrogen atoms and smash them together to make helium.

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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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Well you can. But we can’t control individual atoms that well and catch the results. And then if we could we’d have to do it a LOT. Cause there’s a LOT of helium atoms in one kg of helium….So if you could figure out a way great but at the moment there’s no real profitable way to harvest the results of colliders aside from research purposes

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