You and your friend journey to the mountain foothills to get closer to nature and escape such things as radioactivity. While bathing in the warmth of a natural hot spring she wonders aloud how the spring gets its heat

What do you tell her? You tell her that the hot water is the result of A) industrial thermal pollution.
B) radioactivity.
C) chemical reactions involving the atomic nucleus.
D) nuclear fission.


B

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