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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458301503321

Autore

Storms Edmund

Titolo

The science of low energy nuclear reaction [[electronic resource] ] : a comprehensive compilation of evidence and explanations about cold fusion / / Edmund  Storms

Pubbl/distr/stampa

River Edge, NJ, : World Scientific, c2007

ISBN

1-281-91191-7

9786611911911

981-277-206-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (340 p.)

Disciplina

539.764

Soggetti

Cold fusion

Cold fusion - Research - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-305) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; Chapter 5; 1. Introduction; 2. History as Seen from the Los Alamos National Laboratory - and Beyond; 3. Personal Experience Investigating Cold Fusion; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Search for Tritium; 3.3 Effects of Crack Formation; 3.4 Anomalous Energy Production; 3.5 Study of Palladium; 3.6 Study of the Loading Process for Palladium; 3.7 Surface Composition Explored; 3.8 Writing Reviews; 3.9 Trip to the NHE Laboratory (Japan); 3.10 Exploration of Errors in Calorimetry; 3.11 Experience with Flow Calorimetry; 3.12 Surface Deposits; 3.13 Experience with Seebeck Calorimetry

3.14 Attempts to Replicate the Case Effect3.15 Replication of the Letts-Cravens Effect; 3.16 Development of Better Seebeck Calorimeters; 3.17 Conclusion; 4. What is Known or Believed?; 4.1 The Myth of Cold Fusion; 4.2 Why was Cold Fusion Rej ected?; 4.3 Excess Power Production; 4.3.1 Heavy Hydrogen (Deuterium); 4.3.2 Light Hydrogen (Protium); 4.3.3 General Behavior; 4.4 Helium and Tritium Production; 4.4.1 Tritium; 4.4.2 Helium; 4.5 Transmutation as a Source of Nuclear Products; 4.6 Emissions as Nuclear Products; 4.6.1 Prompt X-ray Emission; 4.6.2 Prompt Gamma Emi ssion



4.6.3 Prompt Particle Emission4.6.4 Radioactive Decay; 4.7 Patterns of Behavior; 4.8 General Replication; 4.9 Questions About Individual Success Rate; 4.10 Duplication of Results (the Bottom Line); 4.11 Explanation; 4.12 What Next?; 5. Where Does Cold Fusion Occur and What Influences its Behavior?; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Cracks; 5.3 Nanosize Particles; 5.4 Dendrites; 5.5 Role of Lithium and Other Alloys; 5.6 Deuterium Flux; 5.7 Role of Hydrogen Isotope Content; 5.8 Role of the Hydrino and Hydrex; 5.9 Role of Neutrons; 5.10 Role of Super-Heavy Electrons as a Shield of Nuclear Charge

5.11 Role of Superconductivity5.12 Role of Electron Cluster; 5.13 Role of High-Energy Environment; 5.14 Role of Wave-Like Behavior; 5.15 Living Organisms; 5.16 Conclusion; 6. What Conditions Initiate Cold Fusion?; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Initiation Methods; 6.2.1 Living Organisms; 6.2.2 Ambient Gas; 6.2.3 Proton Conductors; 6.2.4 Electrolysis Under Faraday Conditions; 6.2.5 Electrolysis Under Plasma Conditions; 6.2.6 Plasma Discharge; 6.2.7 Laser Light; 6.2.8 Sonic Implantation; 6.2.9 Crack Formation; 6.2.10 Ion Bombardment; 6.3 Summary; 7. What Is Detected and How Is It M easured?

7.1 Introduction7.2 Neutron; 7.3 Tritium; 7.4 Gamma and X-ray Radiation; 7.5 Charged Particle Radiation; 7.6 Beta Radiation; 7.7 Transmutation; 7.8 Helium; 7.9 Heat Energy; 7.9.1 Adiabadic Type; 7.9.2 Isoperibolic Type; 7.9.3 Double-Wall Isoberibolic Calorimeter; 7.9.4 Flow Calorimeter; 7.9.5 Dual-Cell Reference Calorimeter; 7.9.6 Seebeck Calorimeter; 7.10 Accuracy of Calorimetry; 7.11 Summary; 8. Explanations, the Hopes a nd Drea ms of Theoreticians; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Limitations to Theory; 8.2.1 Limitation #1:; 8.2.2 Limitation #2:; 8.2.3 Limitation #3:; 8.2.4 Limitation #4:

8.3 Plausible Models and Explanations

Sommario/riassunto

One of the most important discoveries of this century - cold fusion - was summarily rejected by science and the media before sufficient evidence had been accumulated to make a rational judgment possible. Enough evidence is now available to show that this rejection was wrong and that the discovery of a new source of clean energy may help solve some serious problems currently facing mankind. The book catalogues and evaluates this evidence and shows why the initial reaction was driven more by self-interest than fact. This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the history an



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484948203321

Autore

Hickey-Moody Anna

Titolo

Arts-Based Methods for Research with Children / / by Anna Hickey-Moody, Christine Horn, Marissa Willcox, Eloise Florence

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021

ISBN

9783030680602

3030680606

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (157 pages)

Collana

Studies in Childhood and Youth, , 2731-6475

Disciplina

305.23072

305.230721

Soggetti

Sociology

Social groups

Social service

Art - Study and teaching

Research - Methodology

Education - Research

Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging

Children and Youth Work

Creativity and Arts Education

Research Skills

Research Methods in Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Doing - Arts workshops as research with children -- 3. Seeing - Visually analysing children's art -- 4. Being - Children's ways of being through art -- 5. Believing - Belief in the making: The impacts of arts-based approaches -- 6. Conclusion - Doing, seeing, being, and believing in arts-based research with children.

Sommario/riassunto

"Flying soccer balls that are ice-cream factories inside, cars with wings, mobile recycling plants, streets that are rivers. These are the inventions children have offered up to Hickey-Moody. This is because she deftly uses arts-based methodologies to provide resources for engaging with



children and communities to examine social issues such as belonging, community cohesion, faith and attachment. This book will appeal to those who wish to work with arts practices to explore similar themes in complex social circumstances, either as 'research' or as 'community engagement.' Hickey-Moody is an international leader in arts-based methodologies, if you're interested in how to do them well-you should read this book." -Mary Lou Rasmussen, Professor in the College of Arts & Sciences, Australian National University This book offers a practical, methodological guide to conducting arts-based research with children by drawing on five years of the authors' experience carrying outarts-based research with children in Australia and the UK. Based on the Australian Research Council-funded Interfaith Childhoods project, the authors describe methods of engaging communities and making data with children that foreground children's experiences and worldviews through making, being with, and viewing art. Framing these methods of doing, seeing, being, and believing through art as modes of understanding children's strategies for negotiating personal identities and values, this book explores the value of arts-based research as a means of obtaining complex information about children's life worlds that can be difficult to express verbally.