RE: [Vo]: Kamacite and natural fractionation of heavy nickelI do not think there was any report of very much Zn in the fuel. If there was Zn-64 in the samples tested it was not apparent from the report. In fact as I noted yesterday, Zn was on the order of 01 percent. It was not anyway reported near 4 % per my review of the AP report translated by Higgins. .
Bob Cook From: Jones Beene Sent: Monday, March 28, 2016 7:45 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: RE: [Vo]: Kamacite and natural fractionation of heavy nickel Now that we are learning the 64Zn could be an active isotope for thermal gain in the glow-tube (assuming no measurement errors) it should be noted that this is the most common isotope of zinc but is slightly radioactive with an extremely long half-life. It does not need to be enriched. The fact that 64Zn is slightly radioactive means that dense or fractional hydrogen could play the major role in a thermal anomaly process, since it is present in a metal matrix and positioned to disrupt the electrostatic balance of zinc nuclei by getting closer than with a normal hydride. This would be “accelerated beta decay” with dense hydrogen approaching the 64Zn nucleus close enough to trigger beta decay, which would be far more likely than fusion. Starting Zinc content would be 8% of the Nickel alloy. However, this is not out of the question, since there is a common zinc-nickel electroplating alloy and Parkhomov was known to be working on a low budget, so he may have used recycled nickel containing this alloy. This would be good news if true, since zinc is relatively cheap and beta decay is easily shielded. ---------------------------------------------------------- Bob Greenyer got this answer back from Parkhomov on the "64Ni" question (Sochi results). "About high content of 64Ni. We assume that in fact an impurity 64Zn was registered. Mass spectrometer cannot distinguish between these two isotopes." That could be big news… This could be a major breakthrough... or not. The isotope in question was depleted by almost half, so it provided most of the excess heat. If the 4.4% of mass 64 was due to zinc, then about 8% of the starting nickel was zinc contamination which is high but not impossible. Since Parkhomov sounds fairly sure, then he may have seen the other zinc isotopes which were not mentioned. Obviously, the next questions are something like this: was the depletion of the zinc-64 (compared to the starting level) due to its slight inherent radioactivity, and was the decay vastly accelerated? If so, then we must accept that accelerated beta decay can provide excess heat and possibly avoid detection. Other mechanisms are possible but 64Zn has an extremely long half-life, yet it is known to beta decay. The bottom line is that it would be wise to add zinc to a glowstick experiment to see if it could really be this simple.
