5.
Read the passage "Cold Fusion" in the box below
COLD FUSION
In 1989, two scientists from the University of Utah announced to the scientific
community that they had developed nuclear fusion using a method called cold
fusion This was a very important discovery in science as it would mean that a
Inexpensive, environmentally safe unlimited source of energy would become
available to the world. Within five weeks of their presentation, the scientific
community rejected the scientists work, and cold fusion did not become the answer
to providing energy they had hoped it would
Predict the reason the scientific community rejected the idea of cold fusion?
A. Other scientists were tried to contact them and they would not answer,
B. Cold fusion was a topic that was cited frequently among the scientific community.
C. Scientists in the community were unable to replicate the experiment with the same
methods and obtain the same results.
D.
The original scientists were unable to attend a science community meeting involving cold
fusion to explain their evidence.