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From: mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson)
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Subject: Re: Cold fusion on the battlefield...
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From: mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson)

Anyone interested in device geometry might be interested in the paper
"Production of High Magnetic Fields By Implosion" by Fowler et al
in JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS vol 31 no 3 March 1960.

It's a paper by some folks at Los Alamos describing a simple gadget for
converting explosives to a powerful magnetic field.  The same gadget can
be used to created enormous pressure for a few microseconds.

Materials, composition, and exact dimensions are all revealed.  In summary,
a capacitor bank is dumped into a one-turn coil made from a cylinder of
pipe with a slit in it.  This creates a high initial field.  The cylinder
is then crushed by a ring-shaped charge of Composition B (64/35/1:RDX/TNT/wax)
The slit is closed by the detonation, and then the radius of the pipe is
reduced.  The flux from the initial field is confined to a smaller and 
smaller space.  This is how its density is increased.

If loading deuterium into palladium can produce fusion, conceivably pressure
might load more deuterium quicker.
Also note that a big pulse of electricity can be
obtained by placing a coil in the magnetic field (I believe devices derived
from this gadget are used for EMP testing of military equipment).


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