In reply to Jones Beene's message of Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:39:55 -0800: Hi, [snip] > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Edmund Storms > >> If the claimed energy is actually 19600 cal/g, this is >equal to >> 19600*121.76 = 2.38 x 10^6 cal/mole, which is too much to >be real.
It is about 103 eV / atom of Sb, which is indeed much more than one would get from any normal chemical reaction, but lies quite neatly in the "Mills ball park". [snip] >1) Maybe ballotechnic reactions (chemical reactions that >occur on inner shell electrons). This would be in the Mills ball park. [snip] >Then there is the idea of Sb undergoing some kind of >enhanced nuclear decay, perhaps following a ballotechnic >reaction... No beta decay (including double), electron capture or alpha decay reactions are exothermic, starting from either of the stable Sb isotopes, and all the unstable isotopes have short half lives, so don't occur in nature. [snip] Regards, Robin van Spaandonk All SPAM goes in the trash unread.
