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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 23 | Number 4 | July 1993 | Pages 442-464
Technical Note on Cold Fusion | doi.org/10.13182/FST93-A30137
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A new physical object called the E-cell can be used as an appropriate catalyst to facilitate nuclear fusion reactions in solids. The E-cell is a radiation defect in a crystalline lattice of AxHy hydride [ordering number Z and mass number N of element A must be equal to one of the following pairs: (2,3), (3,6), (4,7), or (5,10)] formed by the capture of a thermal neutron in a crystal. Two features of hydrogen nuclear dynamics are of interest: