-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] In reply to Bob Higgins's message:
>How it is implicated at a Pd cathode is a mystery .... It should occasionally be reduced to the atomic Li at the cathode, but is unlikely to last long enough to plate out. It is a highly reactive metal, and will readily react with a water molecule. However, should a Lithium atom both be reduced as a neighbour of a Hydrogen atom at the cathode, then there is a possibility for the Li to catalyze Hydrino shrinkage in the H (D). Robin, That is close to what I was going to add - since the first ionization of Li is 5.39 eV and the second is 75.64 eV. Together these add up to 81.02 eV. In terms of Rydberg energy - 27.2 eV x 3 = 81.6 eV. Which is a very close fit for lithium, but of course, that last electron does not come off easily and that is where nickel may come into play (as opposed to palladium). Palladium has only a low energy fit but nickel has a unique ionization situation vis-à-vis lithium. I'm not sure how this happens in detail but nickel has an IP5 which is almost identical to the one of lithium - IP2. Perhaps the lithium and the nickel interact first, leaving lithium with the deep "hole" that otherwise would not be there at low temperature; and of course, there are objections to that as well (how does the nickel hole open up at low energy unless it is already oxidized) ... but... in looking at the long list of f/H catalysts, since it turns out that there are none, that's right NONE other than nickel that share this near identity of deep ionization potentials with lithium, I am struck by that detail. Maybe it is a coincidence. Somehow, I do think so, in this case - but I am unsure how the mechanics could work out the way they do - but we do know that nickel oxide has been reported to be a better catalyst than nickel in certain situations. This could be one. In short, this dogbone reactor could be a situation where the Quantum Sphere nano-nickel oxide would work very well with lithium to promote deep fractionalization, following which the f/H then further reacts. Jones
