Recalescence is an increase in temperature<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature> that occurs while cooling metal<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal> when a change in structure with an increase in entropy<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy> occurs. The heat<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat> responsible for the change in temperature is due to the change in entropy. When a structure transformation occurs the Gibbs free energy<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbs_free_energy> of both structures are more or less the same. Therefore the process will be exothermic<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exothermic>. The heat provided is the latent heat<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_heat>.
This concept described in Wikipedia seems like LENR to me. It involves the 2nd law regarding an increase of entropy in a coupled system as a result of as a result of a decrease of potential energy and an increase of kinetic energy. If the Sandia incident occurred during cooling while magnetization was ongoing, this alone would deserved a paper IMHO. However, Gibbs did not consider free energy associated with nuclear structures as being important in his theory. Note the BS associated with a constant Gibbs free energy (more or less the same) in 2 different phases associated with Recalescence . Bob Cook
