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Hello Gentle Reader,
here is the next lot. You will perhaps admire my straight face in the
abstracts below (I do), in the face of strong provocation, you'll have to
admit. The flavour of the month seems to be clumps of neutrons; three out of
the four suggest them, either as dineutrons (Yang), quad-neutrons (Matsumoto)
or even up to 1E09 in a bunch (Fisher). In all cases, the observed anomalies
of cold fusion are thus explained, it seems. I was relieved by the Matsumoto,
I must say: having previously read papers by him about gravity collapse and
black holes, when I saw "formation of stars" - well what do you think I
expected? But it's only star-shaped emulsion tracks. I note in the "To appear
next month" page in the journal, Matsumoto also finds mesh-like traces, and I
guess these are from that itonic mesh. The paper below has 6 references, by
the way, all to the man himself. The fourth paper (Mizuno) should perhaps have
been in the "peripheral" file, but I put it into the main one, because
although it does not try to measure cold fusion, it has all the right
references and is clearly a study of phenomena to do with cold fusion and
motivated by it.
                                                                        Dieter
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                     COLD NUCLEAR FUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY
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                           Additions 6-Jan-1993
                   Dieter Britz alias britz@kemi.aau.dk
                     Total no. of journal papers: 774



Journal articles; files cnf-pap1..6
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Fisher JC;                                      Fusion Technol. 22 (1992) 511.
"Polyneutrons as agents for cold nuclear reactions".
** This attempts to address the problem of anomalies in cold fusion, which
clearly cannot be "normal" d-d fusion. Electrostatic repulsion demands that
the new mechanism involves at least one neutral species; it cannot be a single
neutron (not observed), so perhaps it is polyneutrons. This assumes the
existence of a precursor super-heavy isotope (A)H (with A=6, for example) and
the reaction n + (A)H --> (A)n + H, which is mildly exothermic. The poly-
neutron (A)n could then enter a number of different reactions, including
fusion and growth to a higher A value, up to 1E09. Much of this takes place in
the electrolyte, involving lithium, so the role of the PdD phase is not clear
here. This new physics opens up a rich new field of study.       Jan-92/Dec-92
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Matsumoto T;                                    Fusion Technol. 22 (1992) 518.
"Observation of stars produced during cold fusion".
** M has searched for more features on nuclear emulsions held close to a cnf
electrolysis at a thin Pd foil. His theory of quad-neutrons predicts various
events. Multiple neutrons formed within the PdD matrix are covered with the
itonic mesh. This slowly fades, but it might be so sticky that it will allow
the multiple neutrons to react with the nuclei of the media, e.g. in the
emulsion. One of the expected features is the formation of star-shaped
tracks, and they were indeed found. Some of these have long tracks and some
have short tracks, and they obviously are the result of cold fusion taking
place in the cell.                                               Jan-92/Dec-92
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Mizuno T, Akimoto T, Azumi K, Enyo M;
Denki Kagaku oyobi Kogyo Butsuri Kagaku 60 (1992) 405 (Japanese, with English
abstract).
"Diffusion rate of deuterium in Pd during cathodic charging".
** A more fundamental paper, on the absorption and release rates for deuterium
during electrolysis at a Pd cathode in 0.5M LiOD. The Pd rod was degassed in
vacuum at 200 degC for about 20 h. This abstractor infers that loading was
measured by gas volumetry. At a charging current of 44 mA/cm**2, the rod was
fully charged to a D/Pd ratio of close to 0.8 in 16 days; discharge
(presumably by current reversal) led to a rapid initial decrease of this ratio
to about 0.3, followed by a slower decline to zero over a 25-day period. From
these experiments, the authors draw the conclusion that there exist phases
within the metal with different diffusion coefficients for deuterium, i.e.
1E-06 cm**2/s in the alpha and beta phases, and and 1E-08 cm**2/s in a new
hypothetical gamma phase.                                             Dec-91/?
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Yang J;                     Acta Sci. Nat. Univ. Norm. Hunan 15 (1) (1992) 18.
"(2)(1)H-e touched capturing and (2)(1)H-(2)(0)N fusion".
** The above is an attempt to write in one line the symbols
2                2
 H     and        N , denoting deuterium and a dineutron, respectively.
1                0
The author puts forward a theoretical model for the fusion of a deuteron and a
dineutron produced by the capture of an electron by a deuteron. This would
explain some of the anomalies of cold fusion, such as neutron bursts. The
fusion leads to (3)He and a free neutron, plus energy; secondary processes
would also take place, producing some tritium and beta and gamma emission. One
of these secondary reactions is the absorption of neutrons, which would
explain the anomaly of heat but few neutrons observed by FPH. Some interesting
questions remain.                                                May-91/Mar-92
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Dieter Britz alias britz@kemi.aau.dk
Kemisk Institut, Aarhus Universitet, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
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