Antedating of "Cold Fusion"

[Mullins, Bill]

FIND NEW WAY OF PRODUCING ATOMIC ENERGY
Chicago Daily Tribune; Dec 29, 1956; pg. 3 col 1.

"Known as "cold fusion" and still only a laboratory phenomenon, the new
process requires neither uranium nor the million degrees of heat used in
the other two atomic principles."

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> cold fusion (OED 1982)
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> 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.
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