As I have stated in another thread: "Doing science inside the dog bone can be like doing science inside another universe. There is no certainty that physics or chemistry works that same inside the a functioning dog bone as it does in the real world. Maybe different physical rules apply."
On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 4:48 PM, Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 12:58 PM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am interested in what keeps the Rossi micro powder from >> sintering/melting at high surface temperatures when the reactor is in >> operation. We call this weird behavior the melting miracle. >> > This is an interesting question. If the same internal/external > temperature gradient was in effect in the Lugano test as seen in the MFMP > "dogbone" calibrations (at the higher temperatures, a delta T of 330 C > [1]), we're left with some weird possibilities to sort through: > > - the temperature calculated for the outside of the Lugano E-Cat was > significantly lower than 1400. > - the nickel in the volume of the core of the Lugano reactor was not > subject to the same amount of heat across the length of the core, and the > nickel extracted for the isotope assays was from an area that maintained a > temperature below the point of the complete melting point of nickel. > - the outside temperature of the Lugano reactor was as reported, and > the nickel in the core vaporized and then recrystallized when the > temperature was still high towards the end of the test, resulting in a > partially sintered appearance, while somehow maintaining an isotope > gradient. > - other possibilities? > > I do not know what unsintered nickel looks like, so it is hard for me to > get a sense of where along the spectrum the nickel in the images taken from > the Lugano assays was. > > Eric > > > [1] http://www.e-catworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/DogboneDec30.jpg >
