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Originally Posted by Xenophon
"Cold Fusion" is usually used to describe the mostly-discredited process in which Drs. Pons and Fleishman put a palladium electrode in a ??water?? ??heavy-water?? (I forget which) bath and thought that they got out more energy than they put in -- and also more energy than could be explained by simple chemical reactions.
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That is indeed what they claimed, but the crucial flaw in their experiment is that they did
not attempt to look for neutrons being emitted from their experiment - neutrons are the "smoking gun" for fusion reactions. Nobody really understands why they seeing the effects that they were (and nobody really doubts that the temperature rises were real - these were reputable scientists) - but whatever the cause, it wasn't fusion.