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| '''Cold fusion research''' began with an experiment in 1989: | |||
| *an insulated glass jar containing ] (commonly known as heavy water) in which two ]s were immersed, one of them a coil of ] wire, the other a rod of ] - a precious metal comparable in value to gold. A small voltage between the electrodes decomposed the deuterium oxide into oxygen and ] (a form of hydrogen), some of which was absorbed into the palladium. | |||
| *This was high school chemistry. But Fleischmann believed that if the process continued long enough, deuterium atoms could become so tightly packed in the palladium, ] would occur. | |||
| A science reporter following up years later wrote: | |||
| *I found myself faced with an impossible choice: Either 200 chemists and physicists had spent the past nine years doing incompetent experiments and engaging in full-blown self-delusion, or a genuine discovery of great importance had been discredited so thoroughly, some ornery retirees and tenured professors were the only ones who still had the courage even to mention it. | |||
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