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 IRWolfie's question 

Kozima wrote, ""The products of cold fusion phenomenon (CFP) observed by Miley et al. [Miley and Patterson 1996] are tabulated in Table C6.1"". That table lists the kinds of atoms that Miley and Patterson reported finding in microspheres that had been used in a Patterson Power Cell. At the top of Kozima's page 148 he uses the abbreviation TNCF and he defines that term on page page 192 as ""trapped neutron catalyzed fusion"".

Using TNCF to refer to the transmutation of nickel into copper seems appropriate because the nickel is being transmuted into a heavier element (copper) and that is an example of nuclear fusion. However, using TNCF to refer to the transmutation of nickel into lighter elements is a bit misleading because such transmutations are actually examples of nuclear fission, not fusion. In contrast, Miley has used the term ""fissfus"" to describe the transmutation of nickel into a heavier element (copper) and lighter elements (chromium, manganese, iron, and cobalt). The term ""fissfus"" is derived by combining the ""fiss"" from fission with the ""fus"" from fusion.   "