Below you will find example sentences with "cold fusion". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Cold Fusion in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 19
- Discovered as a combination around: cold
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 12
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 25 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 7 start, 9 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "cold fusion" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 25 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as 1990 for cold fusion papers publishing, between cold fusion and respectable, research, papers and researchers stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with cold war, cold water, cold air, cold war, cold water and cold air, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with cold fusion
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Between cold fusion and respectable science there is virtually no communication at all. (13 words)
There is currently no accepted theoretical model that would allow cold fusion to occur. (14 words)
A few other research groups, however, reported successful reproductions of cold fusion during this time. (15 words)
Melvin Miles was granted in 2004 a patent for a cold fusion device, and in 2007 he described his efforts to remove all instances of "cold fusion" from the patent description to avoid having it rejected outright. (37 words)
Announcing the end of the program in 1997, the director and one-time proponent of cold fusion research Hideo Ikegami stated "We couldn't achieve what was first claimed in terms of cold fusion. (34 words)
The claims of cold fusion, however, are unusual in that even the strongest proponents of cold fusion assert that the experiments, for unknown reasons, are not consistent and reproducible at the present time. (33 words)
Example sentences (19)
The Journal of Fusion Technology (FT) established a permanent feature in 1990 for cold fusion papers, publishing over a dozen papers per year and giving a mainstream outlet for cold fusion researchers.
Announcing the end of the program in 1997, the director and one-time proponent of cold fusion research Hideo Ikegami stated "We couldn't achieve what was first claimed in terms of cold fusion.
Melvin Miles was granted in 2004 a patent for a cold fusion device, and in 2007 he described his efforts to remove all instances of "cold fusion" from the patent description to avoid having it rejected outright.
Nucleosynthesis history Cold fusion This section deals with the synthesis of nuclei of dubnium by so-called "cold" fusion reactions.
On 1 May 1989 the American Physical Society held a session on cold fusion in Baltimore, including many reports of experiments that failed to produce evidence of cold fusion.
The claims of cold fusion, however, are unusual in that even the strongest proponents of cold fusion assert that the experiments, for unknown reasons, are not consistent and reproducible at the present time.
Cold fusion main In 1989, Fleischmann and Pons announced the discovery of a simple and cheap procedure to obtain room-temperature nuclear fusion.
A few other research groups, however, reported successful reproductions of cold fusion during this time.
Between cold fusion and respectable science there is virtually no communication at all.
Cold fusion papers are almost never published in refereed scientific journals, with the result that those works don't receive the normal critical scrutiny that science requires.
Cold fusion : This is a hypothetical type of nuclear reaction that would occur at, or near, room temperature.
Critics have further taken issue with what they describe as mistakes or errors of interpretation that cold fusion researchers have made in calorimetry analyses and energy budgets.
Critics have variously taken issue with each of these aspects and have asserted that there has not yet been a consistent reproduction of claimed cold fusion results in either energy output or byproducts.
Fleischmann–Pons experiment The most famous cold fusion claims were made by Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann in 1989.
However, the general public perceives a patent as a stamp of approval, and a holder of three cold fusion patents said the patents were very valuable and had helped in getting investments.
In 2015 the Indian multidisciplinary journal Current Science published a special section devoted entirely to cold fusion related papers.
Since the initial announcement, cold fusion research has continued by a small community of researchers who believe that such reactions happen and hope to gain wider recognition for their experimental evidence.
Subsequent research A 1991 review by a cold fusion proponent had calculated "about 600 scientists" were still conducting research.
There is currently no accepted theoretical model that would allow cold fusion to occur.