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Twas the night before Christmas when all through the houseNo electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged in by the chimney with careWith the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 24 | Number 3 | November 1993 | Pages 332-339
Technical Note | Cold Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST93-A30209
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Experiments of one-point cold fusion have been performed by electrical discharging in ordinary and heavy water mixed with 0.6 mol/ℓ potassium carbonate. A platinum pin anode was located perpendicular to a copperplate cathode. After discharge, the surfaces of the copperplates were examined by an optical microscope. Many ring spots caused by gravity decay of single and di-neutrons were separately distributed on the plates. Furthermore, several kinds of traces that might be produced by itonic hydrogen clusters and by tiny black and white holes were observed. The mechanisms of cold fusion by electrical discharge are also discussed in terms of the Nattoh model.