[Antedating] of "Cold Fusion"

[Fred Shapiro]

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Mullins, Bill wrote:

> I believe this sense of "fusion" is akin to welding; i.e., a physical
> process.  The more common sense of "cold fusion" (as seen in Fred's
> immediately preceding ADS-L post) is a nuclear process, and should be
> considered separately from this one.

That's why I put the citation in square brackets.

Fred Shapiro


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