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- From: webb+@CS.CMU.EDU (Jon Webb)
- Subject: Re: Yamaguchi's Paper and Resp. To S.J.
- In-Reply-To: Jed Rothwell's message of Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:46:43 GMT
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- In article <921119171505_72240.1256_EHL48-1@CompuServe.COM> Jed Rothwell <72240.1256@compuserve.com> writes:
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- There are glass porthole windows in the vacuum chamber, but the experiment is
- not in a glass container and there is no glass in the experimental apparatus
- that is inserted into the chamber.
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- There is no sign of any leak through the glass window during extensive
- testing of the vacuum chamber.
-
- Jed, thanks very much for finding this out from Yamaguchi. Posts like
- this are the reason I still read your stuff.
-
- As I understand the problem, though, sealing the glass from the
- outside is not the issue. The problem is that there may be 4He within
- the glass itself. This is then released when the vacuum chamber is
- filled with deuterium or hydrogen. This is the effect Paneth
- discovered, which explained where the helium was coming from in their
- system, when they originally claimed cold fusion. -- J
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