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From: jkl@csli.STANFORD.EDU (John Kallen)
Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.research,sci.space,sci.chem,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Room Temperature fusion - possible indications?
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Date: 28 Mar 89 01:44:56 GMT
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I've been reading the postings about R.T. fusion with interest, and I
am wondering: why are neutrons so undesirable in a nuclear reaction?
Aren't protons and neutrons of the same energies just as bad? Or does
the Coulomb repulsion of a proton by the nucleus play a role here?
[I've forgotten all my nuclear physics :-) ]
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