The Sun Fusion At Work
Across
- 3. an instance of one moving object or person striking violently against another.
- 6. a chemical element that is the simplest and lightest of all chemical elements and is normally found alone as a colorless odorless highly flammable gas having two atoms per molecule
- 8. electronic component that generates. electricity.
- 9. antimatter, that is, positively charged beta-rays
- 11. the star around which the earth orbits.
- 13. a part or aspect of something abstract, especially one that is essential or characteristic.
- 15. an expert in or student of astronomy.
- 17. a reddish and glowing layer of gas above a star's (or Sun's) photosphere
- 18. the capacity to supply heat or do work
- 19. the force exerted per unit area
Down
- 1. the region around a magnetic material or a moving electric charge within which the force of magnetism acts
- 2. chemical element with 2 protons in its nucleus
- 3. an event in which a large cloud of energetic and highly magnetized plasma erupts from the solar corona into space, causing radio and magnetic disturbances on the earth.
- 4. the very hot, very dense center of our planet.
- 5. like a decay chain, a series of reactions
- 7. occurs when two atoms slam together to form a heavier atom
- 10. the study of the absorption and emission of light and other radiation by matter.
- 12. the planet on which we live; the world.
- 14. of or at a fairly or comfortably high temperature.
- 16. the average kinetic energy of all the atoms or molecules of that substance