At 06:04 am 25-02-05 -0600, Sparber wrote: > The 84,000 joule per gram Explosive Antimony output, in addition > to the energy recovered by recombining the plated-out Antimony > with the liberated Chlorine to get back Antimony Trichloride > SbCl3, sure looks O/U, doesn't it?
I feel sure this idea is worth pursuing. In fact I would go further and claim that crossing any phase boundary at constant pressure involves O/U. The situation can be modeled very simply by jamming a flexible plastic ruler between the two faces of a large steel G clamp so that the ruler takes on a curved shape. Pushing on the ruler will induce a state of compression in material of the relatively elastic ruler (compression strain energy) and a state of tension in the relatively stiff clamp (tension strain energy). If the ruler is pushed past the central position the tensile strain energy of the stiff abutment phase is explosively released into the ruler which whips across to mirror its starting position. The ruler material is being held together by one level of the Beta-atmosphere/Casimir/ZPE. The abutments or G frame is being held together by a deeper level of B/C/Z. All phase changes must involve this kind of two level instability. Interestingly enough, there was a discussion on one of the Groups (it might even have been Vortex) about some bloke who claimed to have found a mistake in the steam tables. As you might expect, the traditional deluge of scorn was poured over his claim - probably because it would have implied the non-conservation of conventional energy to their blinkered way of thinking. In fact, he was probably correct and simply observing the effect of harnessing some small degree of B/C/Z pressure. Cheers Frank Grimer
