Jones Beene wrote: > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected] > Date: 3/2/05 10:26:54 AM > Subject: Re: Explosive Antimony on Platinum, Cold Fusion in 1855? > > Keith et al. > > > It look like from reading the morning mail that Fred may > > have found better refs with the correct value, which > > ( using your superior nomenclature ) puts it at 1/10th > eV/atom. > > > Sorry, but .1 eV per atom is NOT going to give you an > explosion, especially with a material like Sb with a low > vapor pressure. It will hardly get very warm in fact. > Hmm. 1 eV (1.6e-19 joule or ~ 3.8e-20 calories) per atom 4.95e21 atoms/gram translates to 190 calories.
OTOH the nominal 0.05 cal/gram-deg C specific heat of Sb would give a 400 deg C temperature rise which is below its 630 C melting point where the heat of fusion is ~ 40 calories/gram. Gore pegged the temperature of the Exploding Antimony at 250 C giving the implication that the rest of the 19.6 (calories/gram?) was dumped into the "expelled white vapor". I sure hate shooting myself in the foot. :-) Frederick > This issue begs for more detailed research, and it may be > worth the effort for me to go over to the Cal engineering > library. There is remarkably little which is relevant online > (again, is this due to the terrorist implications) , but I > did find this piece, "Fire and Ice: Exothermic Phase Change > Applied to Microbiological Incubation" which is probably > indicative of the type of individual who will eventually > find a cheap ZPE coherence technique , maybe unknowingly. > > http://www.edwards.af.mil/archive/2001/2001-archive-science.html >
