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Many thanks to Bruc Dunn for an attempt at an overview of CNF experiments.  I 
nominate Bruce as the keeper of the summary table, and hereby provide my input.

Type 1 No recombiner, completely open.

Mills runs this way.  Plain water, very open to the air for his large cells.
Ni Cathode, Pt anode, K2CO3 electrolyte.  Sees heat.

Ying.  P&F type cell, open, but exposed to a source.  Sees heat.

Appleby.  P&F type cell, not gas tight, Saw heat (Not Active?)

Type 2, No recombiner, bubbler

Huggins.  P&F type cell, Saw heat, not active now, but Martha Schreiber of his
group now works with McKubre.

Type 3, Recombiner, bubbler

Droege ran Mills experiments in this mode.  No net heat seen.  

Type 4, Recombiner, orifice

No experiments known to me in this category.

Type 5, Recombiner, syringe or bellows

Droege runs mostly this way.  I have run with cell purges of Helium, Deuterium,
Oxygen, and Argon.  With the Deuterium purge, absorbed Deuterium is made up by
more Deuterium from an auxilliary syringe.  With the Oxygen purge, excess 
oxygen is taken off into an auxilliary syringe.  The present run is with an
Argon purge.  The cell was filed and sealed up in the Argon bag.  An early 
disaserous attempt was mad to fill with Helium.  All that is left is a great
picture of me in front of the apparatus with my cat and the Helium baloon I 
used as a source of helium.  Wonderful American Flag on the balloon.  

Type 6. Closed and pressurized.

McKubre and one of the Japanese runs this way.  McKubre back loads with up to
10,000 psi of D2 gas.  There is no vent.  Evolved gas just builds up the
pressure.  But now I guess (after the accident) that the blow out plugs are set
for lower pressure.  He said the last runs were made at 50 psi, I remember. 

The big mystery is how P&F run.  To my knowledge they have never told us.  The
early paper said "sealed with parafilm".  What the heck is parafilm?  But if 
they seal the cells, they have to vent the gas.  My guess it that they are 
Type 2, but perhaps someone can fill in.  Remember that even Hawkins was never
in the back room, so we have to get the answer from P or F.  

The only first class experiment that I know of (McKubre) runs with a 100%
D2 fill.  I guess 10,000 psi is a lot of kPa.  McKubre says that this high
pressure completly prevents the formation of O2 bubbles.  Perhaps someone 
can explain this.  Where does the O go if it does not make bubbles?  But he
has also claimed excess heat at the much lower 50 psi.  

How about it Bruce, do you want to be keeper of the matrix?  If so I will start
sending everything I can find.  At present I am keeping what I know in my head
and trying to do the same job as you in trying to find a common thread in the
successful experiments.

Tom Droege