By the way, Nicholas Cafarelli explained this to me. On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 12:57 AM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote:
> > There is no hydrogen plasma or lithium vapor for that matter. Lithium at > that pressure will not boil at the temperatures being used. If you read > Langmuir's work, you will see that it takes over 2500C for any significant > hydrogen molecule dissociation, and it would be much hotter still to get a > hydrogen plasma. > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zurHSq4CB4 > > This video shows how a super critical medium produces nanoparticles from > dissolved ionic substances when there is a super critical phase transition > caused by cooling the super critical medium so that the dissolved solids > nucleate and form nanoparticles. Both dissolved Lithium, > aluminum, and hydrides will nucleate and form nanoparticle in a cooled > region of the supercritical hydrogen gas. > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 12:23 AM, Bob Higgins <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> See inline ... >> >> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 8:05 PM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>>>> A sign that the nickel power is not working is the explosions that are >>> occurring when the LENR reactions begin in the nano particles produced by >>> lithium and hydrogen plasma as it cools from the high temperatures over >>> 1100C. >>> >> There is no hydrogen plasma or lithium vapor for that matter. Lithium at >> that pressure will not boil at the temperatures being used. If you read >> Langmuir's work, you will see that it takes over 2500C for any significant >> hydrogen molecule dissociation, and it would be much hotter still to get a >> hydrogen plasma. >> >>> >>>>> Rossi says that his nickel is 5 9s pure. >>>>> >>>> 5 9's pure has no bearing on whether the Ni was dissolving. >>>> The Ni has been seen in EDX (Ed Storms' analysis of MFMP ash) the >>>> Li-Al-Ni-H solidified metal encasing the sintered Ni web. It is >>>> now known that the Ni dissolves in the liquid Li-Al-H. >>>> >>> >>> There was a hydrogen fire that occurred after the alumina core raptured. >>> Much the nickel melted because of the extra heat added to the 1057C >>> temperature where the core failure took place. The fuel was sintered into a >>> solid block by high heat. >>> >> >> This is completely wrong. The micrographs of the Ni ash in the MFMP >> experiment were the same as the Lugano Ni ash. There was no explosion in >> the Lugano experiment. Also, from personal experience, when Ni is heated >> in H2, it is fully oxide free by 250C and by 300C the sintering of the >> particles begins. This happens long before there was ever an explosion. >> Not only that, but after the explosion, the Ni core was a completely intact >> molded rod of sintered material. If you look at the micrographs, it would >> be impossible to create the sintered 3D web structure found by "melting" of >> the Ni. >> >>> >>>>> >>>>>> If the small features of the Ni are not complicit in the LENR, then >>>>>> it is not clear that size of the starting particles mean very much. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Where is reference to this? >>>>> >>>> The reference is the Lugano report and Ed Storms' micrographs >>>> of the MFMP ash. They show the Ni sintered into a 3D web with much larger >>>> dimensions. I have personally seen this sintering in my experiments >>>> with Ni powder in H2 at much lower pressure. I published a paper showing >>>> this. In the gas phase experiments, much of the fine features on the >>>> carbonyl Ni particles are maintained, sintering at touching edges. >>>> >>> >>> Thanks for this info. I have always thought that placing the fuel in a >>> pile was a bad idea. The DGT idea of spreading the fuel out in three >>> dimensions in a scaffold of nickel nanofoam would keep the nickel particles >>> apart so that they would not sinter together. >>> >> >> In my experience, once you coat your carbonyl Ni particles with a >> nano-catalyst, the catalyst can prevent substantial sintering into a solid >> and help leave the Ni porous. However, the carbonyl Ni particles by >> themselves don't want to sinter easily into a solid block - they want to >> sinter into a porous body naturally. >> >>> >>> >>>> The Ni particles get reduced of their oxide easily by 300C and they >>>>>> begin sintering into a porous web long before the reaction begins. Thus, >>>>>> the starting particle size bears fairly little relation to the powder >>>>>> configuration at 900C and above. >>>>>> >>>>>> There is no oxide. Rossi says that his nickel is 5 9s pure. >>>>> >>>> Chemically that statement, is total crap. Whether Rossi >>>> started with 5 9's Ni, it was handled in air so there was an oxide. >>>> Further, the reactor >>>> was sealed with ambient air in it. The fuel also included >>>> other ingredients (Fe2O3 for example, more oxygen and iron which is a >>>> normal >>>> contaminant of Ni. Another contaminant is carbon because it is >>>> from a carbonyl process. The carbon may actually be a catalyst in the >>>> end, but it is there in tiny quantities and will be burned out >>>> of the Ni before 700C. The Ni oxide is easy to form and easy to remove in >>>> hot H2. >>>> The 5 9's part is irrelevent in the reaction as long there were >>>> no significant poisons present. Rossi either used it because he had it or >>>> used it >>>> just to be sure what he started with. >>>> >>> >>> To really know how the chemistry of the fuel evolves with time and >>> temperature is to run a series of experiments that test the fuel at regular >>> temperature steps by stopping the experiment at those temperature >>> snapshots and do an chemical analysis of the fuel as it existed at that >>> particular temperature. >>> >>> This chemical evolutionary process is complicated and experiment is more >>> determinative than analysis. >>> >> >> In my version of the experiment, I plan to have samples of temperature, >> pressure, input current and voltage, radiation count and gamma spectrum, >> and then I will collect the product gas at the end for offline analysis. >> Of course the Ni ash will also be collected for examination. This, plus >> the existing papers on LiAlH4 decomposition will go a long way in >> understanding what is going on. I will be able to stop the experiment at >> any point and gather the gas and analyze the ash. >> >> >
