This patent application from 1998 describes a hydrogen "polymer" which is a bound state of many hydrogen atoms:
"Inorganic hydrogen and hydrogen polymer compounds and applications thereof" WO 2000007931 A2 http://www.google.com/patents/WO2000007931A2?cl=en This is a very long patent application - which few will take seriously enough to read in its entirety, but it is my candidate for the most bizarre application in the history of the USPTO - at least in the sense of having been filed by a high tech firm employing lots of PhDs (a few of which seem to have departed in response to the peer criticism received from this very document). That does not mean that the underlying process has been disproved. Nor does the fact that BLP has chosen to essentially ignore it. In fact, there is a more recent claim which can be interpreted as blind validation for this old invention. Note in particular, that a mass spectrometer identifies a gaseous species having m/z of ~16, which could be oxygen or alternatively 16 hydrogen atoms bound into a unit. This molecule is claimed by Mills to be a "polymer of hydrogen" which is . well. almost unheard of. A method to manufacture H16 is described. Recently in 2014 equally bizarre claims have emerged of oxygen transmuting into hydrogen. The company involved is not remotely credible, but nevertheless the possibility exists that the "hydrogen polymer" work of Mills will explain how putative "oxygen" can be converted into copious amounts of hydrogen - without any nuclear pathway. Very simply, the process starts with a large amount of the hydrogen polymer, which would be manufactured in place - which gas would appear in testing to be a gas of almost the same amu as the oxygen ion, mass 16 on a spectrometer. Then . (giving benefit of the doubt) the molecule is dissociated into normal hydrogen (8 molecules of H2) and voila - one has apparently and magically converted "oxygen" into hydrogen without any indicia of a nuclear process. Of course, the gas being tested was always hydrogen, but do not let a suitable explanation get in the way of a fund-raising demo..
