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| Mar 19, 2014 at 2:56 | comment | added | Steve Byrnes | Ron emailed me. Summary: One K-shell hole is enough energy, but the deuterons would be too far from the Pd nucleus for it to participate. So an electron would have to be the 3rd body instead. This is possible but there are some reasons to think it is less likely. About kinetics and stability: He says there is a series of micro-explosions. Maybe each explosion is centered on a region of unusually high D-density (drawn by a low electric potential), and the reaction can't engulf the whole electrode because D density is lower elsewhere, below $B/A$. There is more discussion I'm leaving out. :-P | |
| Mar 18, 2014 at 3:59 | history | edited | Steve Byrnes | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 17, 2014 at 14:11 | history | answered | Steve Byrnes | CC BY-SA 3.0 |