> Latest errata: Apologies for getting almost all of the hypothetical nulcear reactions involving 18O dyslexically garbled. However, the only saving grace of that foray into disinformation is that there could be a 18O --> 18F --> 18O fluorine connection in all of this - more on that speculative detail later.
The main points are these: 1) 18O may be an unappreciated reactant in LENR, especially Mizuno-type glow discharges and other HV regimes. It is 15 times more common in water than deuterium, and its reality is an anomaly in itself, considering the remarkable nuclear stability of 16O, 2) Side-by-side cells using water depleted in 18O vs.water enriched in 18O should be determinative of this. 3) If there is a greater heat anomaly with an enriched isotope, then the question: How can 18O could be involved ? is an open issue. It does not necessaruily need to be a nuclear process, but if it is -then it may involve metastable allotropes and gammless fluorine-cycling. Jones
