Antedating of "Cold Fusion"

[Fred Shapiro]

cold fusion (OED 1982)

1977 _Nature_ 13 Oct. 584  The idea of muon catalysis of cold fusion dates
back nearly 50 years, but the death blow to the technique was given by
Jackson.

Fred Shapiro


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