There appears confusion in Parkhomov's Sochi paper about chart 14. The graph on the left appears to be a fuel percentage, perhaps by atomic abundance (not weight). It includes all of the components found in any significant amount. If you go through the estimated values for the before bars, they sum to about 97.5% (the remaining 2.5% could be other elements not shown, or error in reading the graph).
The table on the right appears to be separate ICP-MS analysis for the Li and for the Ni (two separate analyses). These analyses provided the ratio of the isotopes for each element. So, each element should sum to 100%. It is likely that the graph on the the left did not come from ICP-MS, but rather from SIMS analysis. Bob Higgins On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Bob Cook <frobertc...@hotmail.com> wrote: > The AP test results at slide 14 did not make sense to me. In particular I > do not understand the scale of the graph with the red and blue (before and > after) amounts of the various Li isotopes listed. For example, the Li > isotopes when added together do not seem to add to 100 or any other > possible suggested meaning for the ordinate of that graph. (The Ni > isotopic concentrations (red and blue bars) seem to match the numbers in > the table however and therefore indicate the graph is intended to reflect a > percent for the relative isotopic concentration identified.) > > The black and white table of slide 14 makes some sense, although the note > on the slide that there were no significant changes in Ni isotopic > concentrations does not match the numbers in the table, which showed > significant changes in the various Ni isotopes, particularly Ni-64 as was > discussed earlier on this thread. The Li ratio (Li-6/Li-7) changed from > 0.086 to 0,080, which did not seem like a lot to me. If the Li is > reacting, the data suggested both isotopes were changing such that the > ration did change very much. Otherwise it would suggest that the Li-7 was > about 9 times as active as the Li-6. The absolute concentration of Li in > the fuel before and after would be a desirable parameter to know to > understand if, Li were depleted to any extent. > > Does anyone know the before and after concentration of Li in the AP test? > It’s not listed in slide 13! I wonder why not? > > The ratios of Li-6/Li-7 reported in the AP paper from the UoMO evaluation > of Glostick experiment (No significant heat) were 0.080 for samples tested > and 0.082 natural concentration of Li. This is per slide 17 of the AP > report. I would note that the starting ratio in the AP test does not seem > to be consistent with that expected in natural Li. Is the Russian Li > source different than the MFMP source? > > What do other Vorts think? > > *Bob Cook* >
