THE FORMATION OF EXCITED H SPECIES USING METAL-HYDRIDES

The authors review information available from Russian and internationa l publications (including their own experimental results) wherein an e ffect of forming an excited hydrogen species in systems with hydride-f orming materials, as well as some evidence of the effect in physical-c hemical processes, are considered. Some possibilities of using the eff ect in vacuum physical-energy units and electrochemical energy convers ion systems are shown. A connection of the said effect with a phenomen on of ''cold fusion'' is noted and illustrated with the ''accelerating '' model of the phenomenon as the most clear.