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Question 28
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In 2021, a private laboratory announced that they had achieved sustained deuterium-deuterium nuclear fusion inside a desktop acoustic cavitation chamber at a temperature of only 25 ∘C25\text{ }^{\circ}\text{C}25 ∘C.

Explain why physical scientists expressed deep skepticism regarding this announcement prior to any independent validation.

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