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Title: Calorimetric studies of deuterated Pd electrodes

Journal Article · · Journal of the Electrochemical Society; (USA)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1149/1.2086969· OSTI ID:6433334
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  1. U.S. Army Electronics Technology and Devices Lab., LABCOM, Fort Monmouth, NJ (US)

This paper reports on calorimetric experiments conducted to verify the caloric claims by Fleischmann and Pons. A twin-cell heat conduction calorimeter was used, rather than the quasi-adiabatic instrumentation of the original investigation. Under similar electrochemical conditions, the output of heat powers from experimental cells of Pd in 0.1M LiOD/D{sub 2}O and that from control cells of Pd in 0.1M LiOH/H{sub 2}O and Pt in 0.1M LiOD/D{sub 2}O were all in close agreement with input heat powers using simple theory. These results show no anomalous excess heat as claimed.

OSTI ID:
6433334
Journal Information:
Journal of the Electrochemical Society; (USA), Vol. 137:8; ISSN 0013-4651
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English