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The well-known phenomenon of high-energy particle emission from newly created fractures in solid materials is seen to have a natural explanation in terms of the ponderomotive forces exerted by the coherent e.m. fields associated with the «superradiant» motions of the charged plasmas of solids. The possible role of these fields to produce the neutron bursts that have been recently observed concomitantly with «crack» formation in Ti-deuterides is briefly discussed.
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Preparata, G. A new look at solid-state fractures, particle emission and «cold» nuclear fusion. Nuov Cim A 104, 1259–1263 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02784502
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