In reply to Axil Axil's message of Fri, 17 Jul 2015 22:39:48 -0400: Hi, [snip]
>In that detection method, Lithium ions cannot remain without electrons >through an acid bath. Take another look at the binding energy of the new particle. (See the last column in the table at the bottom of the pdf document attached to previous post.) The binding energy for some of them is so high that they would be chemically more stable than any normal substance. Even 100 eV would make then resistant to temperatures up to half a million degrees Kelvin. An acid bath is just going to wash them nice and clean, if there are any left. ;) >The lithium ions will have been completly >neutralized. The detection method will detect lithium as the results of the >method have proven. The detection method only detected the remnant normal Lithium that was still left. That's why the percentage is so low. >Your assertion does not make sense. It makes perfect sense when you don't make unwarranted assumptions. >The analysts would >not use a detection method that did not detect lithium because they >provided results that showed lithium. The analysts don't know any better. This concept is not even in their vocabulary. > >Once lithium got inside the nickel particle why would lithium ever leave >nickel. Thermal agitation would result in transport. The outer housing may not contain the particles either so presumably they would eventually escape the experiment entirely. The real question is, how many Ni nuclei can they convert before they do. >If lithium was an a complete ion, it would be capured by the >electrons from nickel and share them. A nickel lithium alloy would have >formed. LiHy3 is neutral and doesn't get captured by anything (more like a neutron in that regard). LiHy4- is negatively charged, so electrons avoid it like the plague. OTOH it readily displaces an electron from the Ni and because of it's negative charge and large mass, immediately makes a beeline for the nucleus. As it gets closer, the chance of neutron tunneling from the Li7 to the Ni increases dramatically. (See also here below). > >There are so many free electrons on and inside nickel, the is not >possiblity that a triply ionized lithium atom could get inside and then >leave nickel metal. You just can't assert that such an ion process is >possible. You are correct, I can't assert that. But then again, that's not what I'm asserting. We are not talking about a naked Lithium ion, but rather one that is surrounded and thus shielded by Hydrinohydride ions, that has already lost it's electrons, and has no "interest" in acquiring more. A good analogy is the sulfate anion :- SO4-- (Where Sulfur carries a charge of 6+). Note however the huge difference in size. SO4-- is vastly larger than LiHy4- because the Hy- anions are already much smaller than a Hydrogen atom, and Li+++ has for practical purposes, no size, so that the size of the particle is completely determined by the size of Hydrinohydride ions (also true for LiHy3 of course). Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
