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- From: webb+@CS.CMU.EDU (Jon Webb)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
- Subject: Re: New Scientist: Lukewarm reception for Japanese cold fusion
- Message-ID: <BxFIAC.KLA.1@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 03:13:24 GMT
- Article-I.D.: cs.BxFIAC.KLA.1
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- In-Reply-To: tarl@sw.stratus.com's message of 6 Nov 92 19:51:27 GMT
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- In article <7989@transfer.stratus.com> tarl@sw.stratus.com (Tarl Neustaedter) writes:
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- In article <BxB0ou.1uF.1@cs.cmu.edu>, webb+@CS.CMU.EDU (Jon Webb) writes:
- > [...palladium plate...] Yamaguchi claims it absorbs 760 times its own
- > weight of deuterium.
-
- I presume that's a typo of some kind. That would be 9 kg/cc, which could
- only be some variant of degenerate matter.
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- Not on my part. That is a direct quote from New Scientist. It does
- sound unlikely, though. But your calculation of the density is
- probably wrong; it's well known that palladium expands as it absorbs
- deuterium (in electrolisys, at least.) -- J
-