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Nonetheless, while the evidence is suggestive, there is still no clear understanding of what is going on. In their experiment, Pons and Fleischmann immersed electrodes of palladium and platinum in a bath of heavy water -- water whose ordinary hydrogen has been replaced with an isotope called deuterium. When they passed a current through the electrodes, the contraption produced heat. They concluded that deuterium ions had moved into the spaces between palladium atoms and fused together to form helium, giving off heat in the process...
...Dallas conference packed in some 7,000 chemists hoping for what society executive director John Crum called "the experience of a lifetime." The crowd was there to hear chemistry's new superstar, B. Stanley Pons, describe and defend the experiment that had catapulted him and British colleague Martin Fleischmann to instant fame only a few weeks earlier. Pons and Fleischmann claim to have produced controlled nuclear fusion in a jar at room temperature. If Pons, a professor at the University of Utah, and Fleischmann, of the University of Southampton in England, are correct, and if the process can be harnessed...
...March 23 announcement of University of Utah scientists Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann that they had discovered "cold fusion" triggered a huge scramble among physicists and chemists from Palo Alto to Moscow to verify their results...
...just the press," Parker says. "Some of the scientists, as well, have been hyping the results." Some individuals charge that Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons, who announced the intial discovery on March 23, released the information in a way designed to maximize publicity and to minimize the reliability of the content...
Last week, in an unusual move, a Dutch scientific journal pushed forward its schedule and published the report by Pons and Fleischmann. But at week's end the more prestigious British journal Nature had not yet decided whether to print their findings. The scientific community, while not at all convinced by the claim that the power of the H-bomb had finally been harnessed, was at least taking it seriously...