The term "cold fusion" is used to mean any fusion
below normal hot fusion energies. In order to
synthesize superheavy elements, they use ion
bombardment, I believe, with less than the normal
energy, so that the resulting nucleide that
sometimes forms has little or no excess energy to
cause it to rapidly fission just from that. This
has nothing to do with our kind of cold fusion,
it's really hot fusion, just a bit cooler.
At 01:30 PM 5/28/2010, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Google alerts alerted me this, but I do not know what it is:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123477478/abstract
Synthesis of Superheavy Elements by Cold Fusion
S. Hofmann
Ges. Schwerionenforsch. mbH, D-64291 Darmstadt, Germany
KEYWORDS
inorganic chemistry, review transactinides
I cannot find a link to the actual article or abstract.
- Jed
