Robin,
Let me combine your objections to the previous hasty hypothetical
scenario, into a revised version of how a solar-derived hydrino
might get incorporated into a "metastable" deuteron via ocean
water... this being the candidate for easy "stripping," of Mizuno
and others.
If the hydrino in question first either arrives as a hydride, a
negative ion (or picks up an electron in our ionosphere to become
a hydride) following which there is a good likelihood that it will
hook up with water vapor and become a different type of hydronium
ion. This would actually be a more-stable kind of hydronium, as
the extra negative charge is less.
When this hydrino-hydronium ion reaches the ocean, where there are
potassium and other catalytic ions already partly ionized, it will
then eventually be enticed to shrink to a state where... as you
agreed, it become an energy-poor quasi-neutron...
At which point it will very likely eventually drift into the
strong force field of one of the (protons) of the hydrogen of
water, becoming an energy poor deuteron. This is the population
which I am trying to identify and which Mizuno has apparently
discovered.
Actually, the thermal neutron radiative capture cross section
for
Hydrogen is only 332 mb according to
http://atom.kaeri.re.kr/ton/nuc1.html
Notice I said "characteristic" and not cross-section. The stopping
power of hydrogen for neutrons due to the almost identical mass is
as important as its moderate cross section in the circumstance of
cosmic neutrons (or hydrino hydrides) reaching earth - so that few
neutrons reaching the surface (4/5 ths ocean) are abosrbed by
anything other than hydrogen due to the combination of ubiquity,
stopping power and cross-section (which is thousands of times
higher than oxygen or nitrogen - the other ubquious choices. The
same would be true for energy-poor neutrons which were once
hydrinos.
At any rate - the aim is to find a way that over geologic time,
most of the solar Hy arriving in the solar wind (or ab initio)
might have been already efficiently converted to the speices which
Mizuno has found.... be it deuterino or the alternative, which
would be a normal deuteron with an enegy-poor neturon. It appears
more likely, after what you have said to be that later entity - a
normal proton and orbital, but with an enegy-poor neturon which
was once a solar hydrino.
I would expect about the same proportion of hydrinos to have
undergone neutron capture, as the proportion of hydrogen. As
near
as I can tell no one even considers that some deuterium has been
formed through neutron capture, most simply assuming that the
current hydrogen/deuterium ratio is the same as it was when the
planet formed. (Though this obviously can't be true - some must
have formed, and some must have been destroyed).
The ratio is indeed very different here - comapred to the solar
ratio, which is itself very different from the cosmological ratio.
> The chances that "hydrino water" would be essentially
indistinguishable from normal water (or even liquid) are slim.
Not if redfeined as above! Not if the species in question is a
regular orbital deuteron formed from a proton capturing and
enegy-poor neturon, which was once a solar hydrino.
I suspect that this may be more readily explained by a dihydrino
molecular ion masquerading as a deuterium nucleus.
I think not, because of the initial rarity of hydrinos, and the
resultant low probability of hydrinos hooking up with each other
before they do something else. My choice for now is a
regular-orbital deuteron formed from a proton and an enegy-poor
neturon which was once a solar hydrino, which name is so
cumbersome that it begs for a new one - but this is all so new
that it boggles the mind. "Metastable deuterium" is as good a name
as any for this species.
Jones
