From: Dieter Britz <BRITZ@kemi.aau.dk>
Subject: CNF bibliography update (total now 759 papers, 114 patents/appl.).
Reply-To: Dieter Britz <BRITZ@kemi.aau.dk>
Organization: Sci.physics.fusion/Mail Gateway
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 15:26:44 GMT


Hello goodfolk,
it's Friday and before I look at the latest Chem. Abstracts and glean two or
three more papers (it's a bare trickle these days, for which I am grateful),
I'll fire these few items off. Arata and Zhang, of spark discharge fame, have
now tried electrolysis. Strangely, they use 0.07 M LiOH (not LiOD) in D2O.
There are those who would say that this quenches cold fusion, no H is allowed.
Not so here, neutrons were measured, as well as some heat. The Russian team,
Lipson et al, continue to put their vibromill to use. Here, they have mashed
chips of Zr with a bit of D2O and deuterated polypropylene aded to it, chasing
fractofusion. Again, they find some subtle differences in neutron emissions
between these and blanks. Hm.
Peter Hadfield was at Nagoya and gives us a bit of detail about Yamaguchi's
new results. He has previously observed a largish Pd plate bend and crack, and
a gold film evaporate off, signifying a temperature of over 1000 C. This time,
the temperature rose only by 100 C. Still, how come? It happened in a D2 gas
atmosphere, so I don't see how the heat could come from burning, as suggested
by some critics there.
Frank Close's bestseller is now apparently out as a paperback and is reviewd
by Roy Herbert in New Scientist. He likes it. Frank tells me there is a new
chapter. I'll tell you about it when I get the book, which is on order.
                                                                        Dieter
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                     COLD NUCLEAR FUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY
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                           Additions 13-Nov-1992
                   Dieter Britz alias britz@kemi.aau.dk
                     Total no. of journal papers: 759



Journal articles; files cnf-pap1..5
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Arata Y, Zhang Y-C;           Kaku Yugo Kenkyu 67(5) (1992) 432 (in Japanese).
"'Cold' fusion in deuterated complex cathode".
** A new type of cathode, either Ni or Pd, was prepared by plasma spraying its
surface with Pd. This layer activated the surface and a new type of heat
generation was observed reproducibly. The experiment was done by electrolysis
in 0.07 M LiOH in D2O, with a thermocouple to monitor the heat, and two
neutron counters (one BF3 and one (3)He). Accumulated neutron counts as a
function of time showed clear differences between D2O runs (higher) and
control H2O runs (lower), the latter matching blank runs in air.      Dec-91/?
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Lipson AG, Kluev VA, Mordovin VN, Sakov DM, Derjaguin BV, Toporov YuP;
Phys. Lett. A166 (1992) 43.
"On the initiation of DD reactions in the zirconium-deuterium system".
** The authors suggest that group IV metals should be good materials, and high
dispersivity should, by favouring cracks and dislocations, favour the
dissociation of D2 into atoms, and thus loading into the metal. Here, Zr is
tried, in a vibromill, together with several deuterated substances such as D2O
and polypropylene PP(D6). 10 g of untreated Zr chips were used, mixed with 4%
PPD6 + 10% D2O, placed into a steel cylinder with steel balls and milled at an
applied power of 10W/g. Seven proportional counters measured neutron emission.
The cosmic background was 0.03 n/s. Control experiments with just Zr in the
mill produced no excess neutrons. The charged mill was frozen to -160 C and
then vibrated for 3 min, then allowed to warm up to about 25 C to get the
"post-effect" previously reported. The cell was then again taken down to -160
C. This cycle was repeated several times. Spectra show neutron event
differences between these runs and blank runs, both during freezing and the
post-effect, of 7 and 6 sigmas, and of a strongly unsteady nature. Other
transition metals that form deuterides should do the same.       Mar-90/Jun-92
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Hadfield P;                              New Scientist 136 (1992) (31-Oct) 10.
"Lukewarm reception for Japanese cold fusion".
** PH reports from Tokyo, having been to several meetings, among them the
Nagoya cold fusion cenference. He mainly reports the new results of Yamaguchi,
who has had some news exposure with his Pd platelet, coated on one side with
Pd oxide, charged from the gas phase with D2 and then coated on the other side
with Au. (4)He then appears after some hours, claims Yamaguchi, who however
detected no neutrons; this is a different kind of fusion. Hadfield refers to
what must be mass spectrometry of emitted particles, quoting a 0.64% mass
difference between D2 and He atoms. Yamaguchi repeated this experiment five
times, successful every time. Critics suspect that the He came from the glass.
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Herbert R;                               New Scientist 136 (1992) (31-Oct) 45.
Book Reviews: Paperbacks.
** RH briefly reviews the Penguin paperpack edition of Frank Close's book
Too Hot to Handle. He writes "The story caused jaws and work to be dropped",
but reports that it gradually became clear that it [cold fusion] cannot be
done. RH likes the book, and recommends it as a thriller for a plane flight
for some appalled delight.
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Dieter Britz alias britz@kemi.aau.dk
Kemisk Institut, Aarhus Universitet, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
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