Schaum's Outline of College Physics, Twelfth Edition (Schaum's Outlines)
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ISBN: 9781259587399
Author: Eugene Hecht
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 46, Problem 24SP
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The amount of deuterium fuel needed per day for the reactionwhen it converts into helium and the output power is to be
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