The Nature of the Chemonuclear Reaction

Abstract

In the chemonuclear reaction, the bulk of itinerant s-electrons revealing thermodynamical liquid activity in metallic systems undergo contact interaction with atomic nuclei and nucleons, thereby inducing contagiously thermodynamical liquid activity among the bulk of nuclei towards the chemical potential minimum, hence the united spontaneous, irreversible atomic and nuclear reactions. The chemonuclear reaction is enhanced with astronomical figures beyond the enhancement of few particle processes (e.g., in the electron-screened pycnonuclear fusion). In the systems of metallike hydride/deuteride and electron donor mixtures, self-sustained H-H and D-D chemonuclear fusion reactions take place. Unforeseen phenomena are observed, e.g., radiationless fusion and gamma-ray missing positron annihilation. In addition, the coherent D2-D2 and D3-D3 fusion reactions take place with enhancement factors over 20 to 30 and 30 to 46 figures of magnitude respectively. Through electron density correction on the chemical potential of reactants, the enhancement of chemonuclear fusion approaches to that of enhanced pycnonuclear fusion in astrophysical condensed plasma in the white dwarf progenitors of supernovae. In essence, chemonuclear fusion in condensed matters revealing thermo-dynamical liquid activity is identical to enhanced pycnonuclear fusion in astrophysical condensed plasma.