On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote:
> The reaction should be called cold fission. > Yes, it is tempting to think there is fission going on (or perhaps "cluster decay"). > He4 being a gas will escape the nuclear active zone before a fusion > process can build on it so that a step based transmutation process can get > to the next higher element in the transmutation chain. > 4He is not necessarily mobile in a metal the way H is, so it could potentially stay put. 4He is normally thought to arise in Pd/D. If Ni/H is real, there is no consensus that 4He is a product. Eric
