Re: [Vo]:responce to the IPKat - weblog

[Mike Carrell]

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From: "Robin van Spaandonk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Vo]:responce to the IPKat - weblog


In reply to  Mike Carrell's message of Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:40:29 -0400:
Hi,
[snip]
What is missing from Mills' publications, and apparaently the scientific
literature as well, is data on the effective range of the resonant transfer
effect, or the 'cross section'.
[snip]
My bet is that actual physical contact is necessary, in order to transfer
angular momentum.
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Peter Zimmerman advanced the 'contact' agument on another forum some time 
ago. The radii of a H atom and typical catalyst, such as Ar+, are so small 
that if contact were required, the probability of reaction would be 
vanishingly small. Since Ar+ experimetally catalyzes H, that argument is 
void. It is more likely that the transfer is a near-field phenomenon that 
can be approached from antenna theory, but I do not know of any detailed 
work on such.

Mike Carrell



Regards,

Robin van Spaandonk

The shrub is a plant.


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