Latest errata:
"AND... there is always the further (faint) possibility that O-18
is the under-appreciated difference [sole or contributory active
isotope] in LENR work, more so in the glow discharge regime than
the low voltage electrolysis - or at least, it could be a strong
contributing difference [to excess heat] in any higher voltage
electrolysis experiment with variable results - since it is always
there in water in such a substantial ratio"
...should be... [18O] "can be present with an un-noticed but
substantially variable ratio"
IOW... whereas some deuterium is always present in even light
water, most heavy water is depleted in 18O - but not always.
There, the ratio (O18/O16) can be enormously variable. Yet, even
in light water, the percentage is widely variable depending on the
source of water, and will increase over time if the electrolyte is
being reused (i.e. in an LENR cell which does not employ
recombination such as Mizuno's, the electrolyte is recycled over
and over again).
Next errata :
...the suspected (low energy) nuclear reactions involving 18O.
This is interesting and there is again a paucity of good info on
the www.
I was wrong to suggest a beta decay going to nitrogen. Not
possible. However there are many other possibilities... but it is
best to limit this to beta/EC decay since these are so easy to go
un-noticed.
One reaction which is within the range of 'most-likely'
possibilities (for showing excess heat and no gammas) begins with
either an EC or beta+ positron emission decay to take the target
to fluorine (which reaction is gamma-less) ... and best of all,
this type of reaction should be amenable to accelerated decay in a
high (negative) voltage situation, whereas beta decay would be
retarded.
This decay can even be followed by a cyclical beta decay reversion
back to the original oxygen - this (complete cycle) enables the
nucleus to dump excess metastable energy. But since the cycle is
both gamma-less and has no long-lived transmutation products, it
will go un-noticed. Does 18O have this kind known of
metastability?
Not sure, but there is some tantalizing affirmative evidence for
it in the literature.
And even if previously unknown, that does not mean the suggested
modality is not falsifiable. CR-39 can possibly be configured to
detect this and there are other possible signatures, since 18F has
such a predictable half-life (in the hundred minute range).
Any LENR researcher noticing a repeatable variability in the range
of 110 minutes in delta-T parameters and ESPECIALLY a
heat-after-death episode which decreases with a half-life which is
consistent with a 110 minute decay product, should consider this
as an explanation - even as far out as it may sound at first. The
easiest cross-check is to run two side-by-side cells, one with 18O
enrichment.
BTW - I know of at least one heat-after-death episode which is
consistent with a 110 minute half life and others which may be -
if more details were known.
And if you are the lucky/diligent researcher to find that 18O is
at least contributory isotope to excess heat in an experiment...
be sure to credit you-know-who <G> when you are accepting the big
prize....
Jones
- Re: ...ain't it heavy Jones Beene
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