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Consider the reaction (a) Calculate in kilojoules per gram of deuterium fu...

Consider the reaction

(a) Calculate in kilojoules per gram of deuterium fused.

(b) How much energy is potentially available from the fusion of all the deuterium in seawater? The percentage of deuterium in water is about 0.0017%. The total mass of water in the oceans is 1.3 × 10²⁴ g.

(c) What fraction of the deuterium in the oceans would have to be consumed to supply the annual energy requirements of the world (2.3 × 10¹⁷kJ)?

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