On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 10:00 PM, John Ross <[email protected]>
wrote:
> 3 alpha particles combine to form carbon 12,
> 4 alpha particles combine to form oxygen 16,
> 5 alpha particles combine to form neon 20,
> 6 alpha particles combine to form mg 24,
> 7 alpha particles combine to form silicon 28,
> 8 alpha particles combine to form sulfur 32,
> 9 alpha particles combine to form argon 36,
> 10 alpha particles combine to form calcium 40
Every one of your examples has an even atomic number, that's because a
alpha particle is NOT a fundamental particle, it's just a Helium 4 nucleus
consisting of 2 protons and 2 neutrons ( unlike the electron protons and
neutrons aren't fundamental either but never mind). Many fusion reactions
have nothing to do with Helium, that is to say alpha particles, and they
can produce isotopes with odd atomic numbers; such as when Carbon 12 fuses
with another Carbon 12 and produces Sodium 23, a free proton (hydrogen) and
a 2,241 Mev gamma ray photon. And in the real world you would never see 8
helium atoms (alpha particles) get together to produce sulfur 32 in one go,
instead sulfur is produced by the fusion of just one alpha particle
(helium) with silicon 28 which itself was produced from lighter elements
over a period of many millions of years. And the entire silicon burning
sulfur producing reaction only happens in the center of stars at least 8
times as massive as the sun, and it only starts one day before the star
goes supernova.
> If you had a copy of my book you would see that the center portion of the
> alpha is comprised of four circling protons and two electrons are circling
> the path of the four protons
In other words you think neutrons are just proton-electron hybrids, this is
far from a new idea, in 1932 when the neutron was discovered it was the
first thought anybody had about them and was a perfectly respectable
theory, but by about 1933 when we knew more about the neutron the theory
became a historical fossil.
John K Clark
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