cold fusion

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   nuclear fusion at or near room temperatures; claims to have discovered it are generally considered to have been mistaken

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Questions about cold fusion

What does cold fusion mean?

cold fusion means "nuclear fusion at or near room temperatures; claims to have discovered it are generally considered to have been mistaken".

Is cold fusion a common word?

cold fusion is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.