
Space & Physics
It's Not Cold Fusion... But It's Something
An experiment that earned Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann widespread ridicule in 1989 wasn't necessarily bogus
Michael J. Ravnitzky is the developmental editor of the Explorations in Nuclear Research three-book series, Hacking the Atom, Fusion Fiasco and Lost History, published in 2016.
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