but not 'supplies H+ ions'.

IIRC in spectacular amount per volume of Pd -- but releases that as a gas, when heated; no electrochem required (though in a sense all chem rx IS electrochemical but..)

I don't know how Pd behaves as an electrode in a practical 'storage' (ie reversible reaction) cell, paired with a suitable donor electrode - nor have I heard of any 'primary' / one-shot cell, thought practical. I haven't paid attention to such stuff recently, either, so don't know the latest.

Whatever above reactions, though - the generation of Tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen; its decay into He-3: can only be a 'nuclear' process - if that occurs. And it looks as if: that occurs. It is genuinely irregularly irregular !! a phemonenon.

Exploitation is a no-brainer of course: no one could say ho-hum to these recent experiments.. next. Perhaps we shall have to revise our definitions decribing 'chemical' as *ONLY* involving oxidation/reduction; battling over valence electrons yada yada.

{sniff} Like Newtonian mechanics.. the idea worked So Well too! Built us so many new toys and next we were about to construct a few new species too, for our comfort & convenience..

Oh well,

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- thus also easy to mask in the environment outside the electrode (however previous folk dealt with that). They are apparently - relying on the detection of the rare He-3, much less so than - direct detection of betas from decaying T-3, I surmise.. not enough exp. details in this NPR interview.


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