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Title Measurements of helium in electrolyzed palladium
Creator/Author Morrey, J.R. ; Jones, R.H. ; Wacker, J.F. (Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (United States)) ; Caffee, M.W. ; Hudson, G.B. ; Ruiz, B.V. (Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)) ; Farrar, H. ; Oliver, R.M. (Rockwell International Corp., Canoga Park, CA (United States). Rocketdyne Div.) ; Hoffman, N.J. (Rockwell International Corp., Canoga Park, CA (United States). Energy Technology Engineering Center) ; Kurz, M.D. (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MA (United States)) ; Lupton, J. (California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA (United States). Marine Science Inst.) ; van Veen, A. (Delft Univ. of Technology, Interfaculty Reactor Inst., Mekelweg 15 NI-2629JB Delft (NL))
Publication Date1990 Dec 01
OSTI IdentifierOSTI ID: 5673191
Other Number(s)Journal ID: ISSN 0748-1896; CODEN: FUSTE
Resource TypeJournal Article
Resource RelationJournal Name: Fusion Technology; (United States); Journal Volume: 18:4
Subject73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; 30 DIRECT ENERGY CONVERSION; 74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; COLD FUSION; EVALUATION; HELIUM 4; ION IMPLANTATION; PALLADIUM; CATHODES; ALPHA PARTICLES; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTROLYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; ION COLLISIONS; LITHIUM DEUTERIDES; LITHIUM HYDROXIDES; ALKALI METAL COMPOUNDS; CHARGED PARTICLES; CHEMISTRY; COLLISIONS; DATA; DEUTERIDES; DEUTERIUM COMPOUNDS; ELECTRODES; ELEMENTS; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; HELIUM ISOTOPES; HYDRIDES; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; HYDROXIDES; INFORMATION; ISOTOPES; LIGHT NUCLEI; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; LITHIUM HYDRIDES; LYSIS; METALS; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; NUCLEI; NUMERICAL DATA; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; PLATINUM METALS; STABLE ISOTOPES; TRANSITION ELEMENTS
Description/AbstractThe result of a double-blind, cold fusion experiment are reported, in which six laboratories measured the helium content of five identically shaped 2-mm-diam {times} 10-cm-long palladium rods supplied by Fleischmann and Pons. Three rods were initially implanted with {sup 4}He. Before analysis, three of the rods had served as cathodes during electrolysis in cold fusion experiments: two in 0.1 M LiOD, and one in 0.1 M LiOH. The other two, one implanted and one not, served as references. The major observations reported on in this paper are as follows: All the materials, including the as-received palladium stock, contained easily measured quantities of {sup 4}He, well above amounts normally found in high-purity palladium. The {sup 4}He could be totally removed from at least two of the materials, including the as-received palladium stock, by surface etching the samples to a depth of {approximately}25 {mu}m. Helium implanted by alpha-particle bombardment remained in the electrodes through out the electrolysis. No {sup 3}He was measured above detection limits in any of the materials by any of the six laboratories.
Country of PublicationUnited States
LanguageEnglish
FormatMedium: X; Size: Pages: 659-668
System Entry Date2008 Feb 07

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