Searches for low-temperature nuclear fusion of deuterium in palladium

@article{Lewis1989SearchesFL,
  title={Searches for low-temperature nuclear fusion of deuterium in palladium},
  author={Nathan S. Lewis and Charles A. Barnes and Michael J. Heben and A. Kumar and Sharon R. Lunt and George E. Mcmanis and Gordon M. Miskelly and Reginald M. Penner and Michael J. Sailor and Patrick G. Santangelo and Gary A. Shreve and Bruce J. Tufts and M. G. Yoshikawa Youngquist and Ralph W. Kavanagh and S. E. Kellogg and Robert Bruce Vogelaar and T. R. Wang and Richard W. Kondrat and Ron New},
  journal={Nature},
  year={1989},
  volume={340},
  pages={525-530}
}
A series of experiments has been performed to determine whether nuclear fusion processes occur in palladium rods that have been electrochemically charged with deuterium. With a variety of metal-lurgical pretreatment procedures and different electrolytes, no evidence has been obtained for any excess enthalpy, neutron, gamma ray, tritium or helium production during electrolysis of D20 with palladium cathodes. 
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