XPost: sci.physics   
   From: amdx@knology.net   
      
   On 11/1/2011 10:29 AM, eric gisse wrote:   
   > richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote in news:j8oee2$1ovo$2   
   > @matchbox.inf.ed.ac.uk:   
   >   
   >> In article,   
   >> eric gisse  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>>> This is not a chemical reaction, this is supposed to be a nuclear   
   >>>>> reaction. There are no catalysts in nuclear reactions, it's just smash   
   >>>>> things together and smash things apart.   
   >>   
   >>>> Look up "muon-catalysed fusion".   
   >>   
   >>> You need muons for that.   
   >>   
   >> I was addressing only the quoted comment, claiming that catalysis   
   >> isn't a concept relevant to nuclear reactions.   
   >>   
   >> -- Richard   
   >>   
   >   
   > A catalyst is something that assists with chemical reactions. There are no   
   > known catalysts for nuclear reactions, and muons don't count because the   
   > element in question isn't the same anymore once all its' electrons have   
   > been replaced with muons.   
      
      I'll admit to little knowledge here, but couldn't there be some   
   chemistry used to get H1 from H2, and then the H1 is available for the   
   nuclear reaction?   
                   Mikek   
      
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