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Why Are Very High Temperatures Required for Fusion to Occur?

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 Why are very high temperatures required for fusion to occur? 

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Solution

 When two positively charged nuclei are brought together, they repel each other. Therefore, a very high temperature is required to force the lighter nuclei to fuse together to form a bigger nucleus.

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