Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Disputes over scientific research methods, long ignored by an uninterested public, made headlines earlier this year when a pair of University of Utah researchers claimed they had discovered a reaction that could provide the world with a virtually unlimited source of energy...
...that Pons and Fleischmann never used a control experiment, although controls are standard scientific practices expected even of first-year chemistry students. Without a control experiment, it was impossible to tell for sure if the heat generated in the experiment came from fusion or from a previously unknown chemical reaction...
...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...
...looking at the cold fusion reaction, in particular the Brigham Young phenomenon rather than that other one," Jones said. "That is, we'll be looking for neutrons rather than heat...
...makes a decision and it's not a decision I would have made, my first reaction is to think that there's something I missed," says Riesman...