From: "Ron Wormus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: MAHG vs BLP reaction
> Mike, > Does Mills have any runs done at 0.1 atm (~80Torr)? As I > understand them, Mills experiments are all run at substantially > lower pressures. > Ron Most of the BLP gas phase experiments have been done in the vicinity of 1 Torr. I think the issue is a balance between the basic need for the reaction to take place between isolated H and catalyst atoms, and competing processes that de-ionize catalysts and recombine H's. There have been some instances where higher pressures were used for specific tests. The pressure involved has to do with the competing rates of reactions, not whether the reactions will occur. There is a vast parameter space to be explored. Mills has said almost nothing about the extent of such explorations, publishing only selected findings. To my knowledge Mills work has been with flowing systems whose properties are defined and stable so they can be studied. A closed system such as the MAHG is far more complex in all the things that can be going on inside, so conclusions based on pressure differences alone are very risky. My point in the MAHG discussion is that elements known to produce BLP reactions are present, so before ZPE is accalimed, tests should be made to detect the BLP reactions whose signatures are well defined by Mills. IF those signatures are looked for adequately and not found, then we may have another energy phenomenon to understand, which would be fine. Mike Carrell
