I would like to offer an explanation for this confusion. The CaO layer
has only two purposes. It acts as a diffusion barrier and it allows a
nuclear-active structure to grow within the deposited Pd layer. The
diffusion barrier allows the D concentration in the deposited Pd layer
to achieve a higher value than would be possible in its absence. Since
the reaction is related to the fourth power of the D concentration, the
ability to detect a reaction is very sensitive to D concentration in the
nuclear active region, hence the composition must be maintained as high
as possible. CaO, as well as other materials, is able to initiate
growth of a structure that is nuclear active. As yet, this structure is
unknown. I throw this idea out without justification, which can be
provided by further discussion.
Ed
Mark S Bilk wrote:
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Something I've never understood about this work: why does he
pump the D2 gas through the element to be transmuted, and then
through the alternating layers of CaO and Pd that make it all
happen? The deuterium "activated" by the CaO layers would have
to flow backwards, against the pressure differential, to get
to the element it's adding to.
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 05:01:07PM -0800, Mark S Bilk wrote:
The summary below is based on this 2.5MB pdf:
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/IwamuraYobservatiob.pdf
