is it fusion or fission? im thinking fusion since fission takes place in the sun but yeah
Fusion takes place in the sun..
Two protons are smashed into a deuterium particle, which is then fused with another proton to make helium. Two Helium particles are then combined into Helium 4.
This can only happen at extremely high pressures at the core of the sun.
Nuclear Fission is what we do here on Earth. We bombard a radioactive material with protons in a procedure called "proton bombardment." This knocks a proton off of the unstable material and the broken bond lets off an extremely high amount of energy. When you bombard a radioactive material, and the proton you knock off flies off and knocks off another particle, you have a chain reaction which happens at the speed of light until nearly every single proton is dislodged and it releases an ungodly amount of energy that results in a nuclear explosion.
The more you know.