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Cold Fusion: A Plausible Idea
Cold fusion came in as an idea in 1989 from the University of Utah. There was a phenomenon before that that had been discovered. A heavy negatively charged particle called a muon got bound to deuterium heavy hydrogen. That allowed the deuterium to get close to another deuterium close enough that this strong force caused them to fuse.