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...Fusion occurs when two small atoms combine to form a larger atom, releasing energy. The Utah researchers reported that when they ran an electric current through a flask containing heavy water and palladium, a sharp increase in water temperature occurred. The pair claimed that atoms of deuterium (a form of hydrogen found in heavy water) entered the palladium and fused together into helium atoms...
Silvera leads a team in the Lyman Labs that is using a high-pressure diamond anvil to crush together a palladium and deuterium cell. Silvera says their first test, which failed to release heat or emit subatomic particles that are expected by-products of fusion, could have failed because of accidental leaking by the liquid deuterium...
Most cold fusion experiments around the world also yielded negative results, and the repeated reports of failure fueled speculation that Pons and Fleischmann's discovery was closer to science fiction than science...
Chemists one week later defended their colleagues and criticized the physicists for their attacks on Pons and Fleischmann. The resulting rift between physicists and chemists further clouded the cold fusion debate...
...conference in Los Alamos, N.M., two weeks ago, a group of scientists from both fields seemed to resolve the scientific schism, concluding that Pons and Fleischmann's research was flawed and that the heat they found was produced by a chemical reaction--not fusion...