The mass differential between 2 Si-28 (27.9769) and Fe-56 at a.m. of 55.93494 is not very much. It may be that Si fusion is involved in the Indian steel plant.
Bob Cook Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Jones Beene Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2017 8:35 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Sleeper from ICCF20 Yes - that's correct... the impossibility of fusing the starting elements into iron in a smelting operation comes from overcoming the Coulomb barrier, not from the final energy balance. There is no calcium at the start, but if there were - long before carbon and calcium could fuse (if this were happening on a dying star) - the carbon would fuse with another carbon or other light element. There is no "clean" pathway to get iron alone as a desired goal, especially without deadly radioactivity. It's kind of absurd really. Bottom line - no mechanism exists to get excess iron via transmutation of silica and carbon. Even if there were, it would not add mass magically. Thus, it is likely that gross measurement error is the likely explanation. Otherwise, this kind of thing does not go unnoticed in a poor country. India is not exactly a major iron producer but would be if this were not some kind of silly anecdote. (It's a bit early for April 1). mix...@bigpond.com wrote: No, quite the reverse. Changing almost anything into Iron is exothermic, because the Iron is near the top of the binding energy curve .e.g. 44Ca+12C => 56Fe + 19.137 MeV
