Abstract
In a press conference on 23 March 1989 at the University of Utah, two electrochemists, Martin Fleischmann and B. Stanley Pons said that they had attained a ‘sustained nuclear fusion reaction.’ The media identified the discovery as ‘cold fusion.’. Their electrolysis experiment used the elements palladium (a heavy metal) and deuterium (an isotope of hydrogen). The first experiment was performed in early 1985. Fritz Paneth and Kurt Peters of the University of Berlin preceded Fleischmann and Pons with a similar experiment in 1926. The Fleischmann–Pons event initiated a new field of science. It did not belong exclusively to chemistry, physics, or any other scientific discipline. Modern research in the subject is covered in detail in the related article ‘Cold Fusion – Precursor to Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions (00095). ’
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