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The reaction in which two light atomic nuclei combine into a single heavier nucleus, releasing energy because the product is more tightly bound than the reactants. Lawson's 1957 Some criteria for a power producing thermonuclear reactor set out the condition a fusing plasma must meet, combining temperature, density, and confinement time, for the energy released to exceed the energy needed to sustain it, the basis of ignition and the Lawson criterion. The referent is a reaction among atomic nuclei governed by nuclear binding energy, and it has nothing to do with a merging of retinal images, a bond between a person and a group, or a blend of musical styles.[1]
The neural process by which the two slightly different images formed on the left and right retinas are combined into a single, unified percept, within a limited range of disparity beyond which the images no longer fuse but rival or appear double. Blake and Wilson's 2011 review Binocular vision surveyed how the visual brain combines the two eyes' inputs, including the fusional limits and their relation to stereoscopic depth. The referent is a perceptual integration carried out by the visual system, timed and bounded by disparity, and it is not a nuclear reaction, a group bond, or a musical genre.[2]
A visceral sense of oneness with a group in which the personal self and the social self become functionally equivalent, so the ordinary boundary between the individual and the collective grows porous. Swann, Gómez, Seyle, Morales, and Huici's 2009 Identity fusion introduced the construct and showed that strongly fused people, unlike merely identified group members, retain a potent personal self and are willing to fight and even die for the group. The referent is a relation between a person's self-concept and a group, measured by scales and behaviour, not a reaction among nuclei, a merging of retinal images, or a blend of musical styles.[3]
A musical genre that took shape around 1970 as jazz musicians blended the improvisation and harmony of jazz with the electric instruments, rhythms, and studio textures of rock, funk, and soul. Fellezs's 2011 Birds of Fire: Jazz, Rock, Funk, and the Creation of Fusion reads the music as a broken middle that resisted the settled boundaries of genre and the critical categories built to police them. The referent is a hybrid musical style and the cultural arguments around it, and it shares nothing with a nuclear reaction, a perceptual process, or a psychological bond beyond the six letters.[4]
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