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...March 23, B. Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announced that they achieved "cold fusion" in a flask, and scientists around the world quickly rushed to their labs to attempt to verify the researchers' claims...
...when Pons and Fleischmann claimed that they had achieved fusion at room temperature with relatively inexpensive equipment, the two scientists were cast in an unfamiliar role--that of celebrities...
...fusion discovery made its way onto the covers of dozens of newspapers and tabloids, and Pons and Fleischmann became as close to house-hold names as two research chemists could ever hope to be. Some observers credited them with the greatest discovery since fire, and others said they would soon be on the way to Oslo for a Nobel prize...
...Pons and Fleischmann's fame soon turned to infamy, as other scientists began to question the pair's experimental method and results...
...physicists offered several theories about where the Utah experiments had gone wrong. Pons and Fleischmann claimed that they had caused the nuclei of deuterium atoms, a heavy form of hydrogen, to fuse together to form helium, thus releasing radiation and heat energy. But, the physicists suggested, the radiation detected might have come from radon that was already present in the laboratory's air. The helium reported could also have seeped into the apparatus from...