In reply to Jones Beene's message of Sat, 29 Aug 2009 08:45:42 -0700: Hi, [snip] >One detail - possibly relevant to this thread, which came up in another >discussion, and which jogged my memory is the further implications for LENR >which can be "reinterpreted" from the famous Alvarez experiment. > >In fact, it is clear that low temperature d-d fusion happened long before >P&F - and had already been observed in bubble chambers at near absolute >zero, and up to room temp - and that two D atoms in a molecule (already at >close range) fuse into an alpha particle with a 5.5 MeV gamma ray. The gamma >is far lower in energy than a 'hot fusion' variety [is that related to >energy being deposited in the catalyst?] [snip] Since the H + D -> He3 reaction produces a 5.49 MeV gamma ray, it seems highly likely that this is what was observed, especially considering the fact that it is next to impossible to obtain pure D with no H content.
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