Its harder but its necessary i guess. For ionisation
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Eheran@lemmy.world 3 months agoWouldn’t the hot part actually make it harder…? All you want is density and as little to counter gravity as possible.
mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Eheran@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Why? What for?
mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
I guess to overcome electron degeneracy pressure. Nucleus would collide more easily when electrons are stripped away. Not sure if i am conpletely true though
Eheran@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Heat means more vibrations, which means less density and more force needed to compress the matter to the same density. Just compare any solid material to plasma. Or the 100 million kelvin plasma at ITER, which has an absurdly low density (like a high vacuum) but still 1 bar of pressure due to the thermal pressure.
Electron degeneracy pressure is always present when there are electrons, regardless if they are part of an atom or free moving in a plasma.
pennomi@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Fair enough, though I promise at those pressures things get spicy.