In reply to Eric Walker's message of Tue, 8 Dec 2015 20:00:24 -0600: Hi, [snip] >That would also create daughters with much higher energies. A nice thing >about the lower energies involved in alpha captures is that the daughters end >up having ~ 300 keV/nucleon, which is not that much. Also, 2 D's and 4 H's >require 3-body and 5-body reactions, which seem improbable to me.
If they are bound together in shrunken molecules it is only a two body reaction. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html