Ascending Diffusion Or Transmutation

INTRODUCTION In any field of investigations new ideas in combination with newly developed equipment can provide advance results. In view of arising interest to cold nuclear fusion (CNF) [1] and searches for consequences of its occurrence the study of the interaction of hydrogen with metals has coincided with the wide spread of the micro-probe X-ray spectrum analysis. This analysis is performed during measurements of alloying element concentration [1] with resolution of about 1x1 μm. Savvotimova et al. [2] revealed the appearance of residual elements on the surface of a palladium cathode after electrolysis in the plasma of а glow discharge in deuterium medium and established that concentration of these elements increases by tens and thousands times. The authors ascribe the local concentration of elements (Ag, B, Ni, et al.) to transmutation resulted from nuclear reactions, though, according to the measurements made by the authors, the number of detected γ -quanta is 8-10 times less than it is required for the case of appearance of such amount of residual elements. The results of this paper in respect to accumulation of elements are confirmed in a number of publications relating to electrolysis on palladium cathodes [3,4] where the term “non-expected elements “ was introduced. The present paper ascribes the appearance of these clusters in titanium alloy samples to ascending diffusion of impurities.