INTERACTION OF PALLADIUM HYDROGEN AND PALLADIUM/DEUTERIUM TO MEASURE THE EXCESS ENERGY PER ATOM FOR EACH ISOTOPE/

A search for the products effusion reactions that could be triggered b y sparking in hydrogen isotopes produced a negative result with no sig natures above background being found. Very significant excess energy p roduction in both hydrogen/palladium and deuterium/palladium systems i s reported. The conditions of occurrence for this excess energy produc tion are discussed, and the formation of a tightly bound state of the hydrogen (deuterium) atom is put forward to explain the results.