In reply to Eric Walker's message of Sun, 4 Nov 2012 15:01:00 -0800: Hi, [snip] >Up to now I've only heard about decay half-lives. Is there another name >for the fusion half-life or a page that describes it?
You probably won't find it. The terminology usually used for fusion is "reaction rate" which is a sort of inverse time. IOW the lower the reaction rate the longer the time (a half life is of course a time). Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html