Interaction of Palladium/Hydrogen and Palladium/Deuterium to Measure the Excess Energy per Atom for Each Isotope

A search for the products of fusion reactions that could be triggered by sparking in hydrogen isotopes produced a negative result with no signatures above background being found. Very significant excess energy production in both hydrogen/palladium and deuterium/palladium systems is reported. The conditions of occurrence for this excess energy production are discussed, and the formation of a tightly bound state of the hydrogen (deuterium) atom is put forward to explain the results.