ARRGH! How can everything in this field be so *vague* !? If I read the messages from Jed and Dr. Storms correctly, it's not known at this time whether P&F used pure palladium, or used a Pd/Ag alloy. That doesn't seem like a trivial difference!
It's as though Dr. Jekyll not only couldn't get a working batch of the reagent that would change him back from being Hyde, but he'd forgotten what the compound was that he ordered the one time he got a batch that did work. It does seem like Jed's right -- the level of public documentation here is lacking. It *ought* to be possible to just pull paper number 12321-PF from the Lenr-Canr archives and see for sure what was used. But, apparently it's not that easy. Jed Rothwell wrote: > Edmund Storms wrote: > >> Thanks for this detail Jed, but no where do I see mentioned that this >> material is a Pd-Ag alloy. > > That is my recollection of what he told me. > > This document says "Fleischmann reported success with pure palladium, as > well as silver and cerium alloys." > > As I recall he said "Type A" is the silver alloy used in filters. We > could ask J-M if they ever used pure Pd in filters. I doubt they did. > > My guess is that the modern reformulated filter palladium would work > just as well as the old stuff. My guess is that the reason it works is > prosaic: it loads to high levels easily and it does not crack. Those are > well known necessary characteristics to achieve cold fusion. Why they > are necessary I do not know, but they are. > > > I see that I managed to misspell his name in this document. Good grief! > > - Jed >
