On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 10:59:05 Terry Blanton wrote,
>uses nickel and nanotubes:
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>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/3744326.stm
Well spotted Terry. I normally read the BBC site but I didn't
pick up this one.
For anyone who missed this link I have copied the important
part below.
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Scientists are now trying to get around this. The options
include metal alloys that can be persuaded to absorb up to
1,000 times their own volume of hydrogen; and minuscule
cylinders of carbon atoms, known as nanotubes, that are
more efficient still.
But both of these solutions have their drawbacks, and now
the teams from Newcastle and Liverpool Universities have
come forward with another approach.
They have investigated a number of synthetic materials
including a blue solid containing carbon, nickel, nitrogen
and a little oxygen which together form a crystalline
"tongue and groove" structure.
Within this lattice there are tiny gaps that are millionths
of a millimetre in size where the hydrogen can sit. What
is more, these pores are protected by "windows" that "close"
once the hydrogen is inside.
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Professor Matt Rosseinsky, of Liverpool's department of
chemistry, said: "Our new porous materials can capture
hydrogen gas within their channels, like a molecular
cat-flap.
"After allowing the hydrogen molecule - the 'cat' - in, the
structure closes shut behind it. The important point is
that the hydrogen is loaded into the materials at high
pressure but stored in them at a much lower pressure - a
unique behaviour."
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It seems to me that Rosseinsky has found a great way of producing
synthetic Beta-atmosphere vacuum cavities in a controllable fashion
in contrast to the production of metals like palladium.
This sounds very promising in relation to initiating cold fusion.
After all, if C60 cavities can change the rate of radioactive decay
of Be7 by a significant amount then it's not unreasonable to imagine
that nano cavities can catalyse cold fusion of deuterium.
It wasn't that long ago that then current theory required that both
rates and time distributions of decay events were truly random.
Indeed, In CHEM and ENG.NEWS, Apr.7 1975, p.2. Prf.Dudley complained,
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"Long and well taught is the axiom that
radioactive decay rates are described by
N = No - kt, with half-Iife constant = 0.693/ k.
These equations result initially from studies
done with crude instruments some 70 years ago.
Bluntly, they are incorrect, nonetheless appear
in our latest textbooks to compound the errors
of past generations. This in spite of the more
recent evidence.
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Cheers,
Grimer
