At 02:26 pm 16-01-05 -0500, Keith wrote: <snip>
> I would be remiss in not mentioning that old coyote David Hudson; he > was a big proponent of cluster based chemistry and claimed to have > some success ( although he sort of turns the notion on it's head > and claims ALL materials are cluster like and the rare form is > the monatom ) doing chemical operations to achieve the result. > If you can send me a copy of the Science article I'd be most > appreciative. > K. I'm interested to read what you say about "that old coyote David Hudson". Not only do I think he's generally correct but I would go further and say that all [What all? - Well, nearly all. ;-) ] materials are composed of a hierarchy of self similar clusters which is why, of course, they exhibit power law relations between various measures of strength and density for example. In fact I wrote an Internal Note on this at RRL in the early 60s. I'll have to get down to the job of OCRing it and putting it on the Beta-atmosphere Yahoo site. I believe that clusters are also relevant to the success Mizuno has with his sintered specimens (page 73-74 of Jed's translation). I think he was a bit of a chicken not to do the kamikaze and let the specimens blow up the lab. Politicians will never be convinced by calorimetry, but blow up a city block or two and they will sit up and take notice. 8-) Cheers Grimer
