Arnaud, I don't believe Rossi uses the carbonyl process, I am referring to high external surface area Ni micro-particles produced through precipitation of pure Ni particles from nickel tetracarbonyl liquid. This is a common form of pure, high active external surface Ni powder used in battery applications for example. It is supplied by the nickel manufacturer as pure Ni powder having very distinctive flower-bud-like particles with a diameter in the 4-10 micron range. Nickel tetracarbonyl liquid is dangerously poison and NEVER used by the end user. The (poor) photograph in Rossi's patent and his specific statement that Raney Ni will not work led me to the conclusion that he is using carbonyl Ni powder. Also, Defkalion, his early partner, went straightaway to this carbonyl Ni powder as their starting point.
I believe Rossi uses Fe2O3 nanopowder as his catalyst, and thermochemically processes the powder into the Ni particles. He creates the "tubercles" he describes using the thermochemical processing. According to Rossi, just adding the nanoparticles will not result in significant LENR. Addition of the nanoparticles and thermochemical processing together would support the formation of NAE as cracks as Ed Storms describes, and maybe even the magnetic traps as described by Yeong Kim. I wrote a paper about this processing. If you are interested, private email me and I will send you a copy. It was posted to Vortex before. Bob Higgins On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 2:09 AM, Arnaud Kodeck <arnaud.kod...@lakoco.be> wrote: > Hello Bob, > > > > I agree with you that Rossi does NOT use nano sized Ni particles. He has > always said that he use micro sized Ni particles. But can you point > explicitly a sentence from Rossi saying he use the carbonyl process or is > it an assumption? I never haerd such claim by Rossi. > > > > It is clear that the Ni particles has a treatment to enhance the loading > of H inside the lattice (with Cu or/and La?). There are also nano sized > builds that create the SPP that trigger the reaction. The nano sized builds > need to survive high temperature. > > > > Arnaud >
