Antedating of "Cold Fusion"

[Shapiro, Fred]

cold fusion (OED 1977)

1956 _Chicago Tribune_ 29 Dec. 3 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)  A new and third way of producing atomic energy was unfolded to the American Physical society here today.  Known as "cold fusion" and still only a laboratory phenomenon, the new process requires neither uranium not the million degrees of heat used in the other two atomic principles.

Fred Shapiro

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