Has Peter B. Baker not heard of alpha particles ("Compound the error", Letters, 26 January)? These are helium nuclei. Just add electrons. No need for chemistry, alchemy or nuclear fusion: radioactive fission can do the job. University College London's Ray Dolan presumably already knew this and thought it too obvious to mention.
Dave Kimber, St Neots, Cambridgeshire
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