Tulse wrote:
would the oxygen or the sodium in borax create problems in the plasmoid?
I would presume that reactions with those elements would not be aneutronic.
Their cross-sections for fusion are pretty negligible, even if you could get it hot enough so no need to worry about producing neutrons. But given their high Z of 8 & 11 respectively, even a few percent of them in the plasma would pollute it to the extent that it would radiate too much to achieve a sufficient temperature for the boron to fuse.
