Good point. Embrittlement could indeed be coupled to UHD. On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 3:40 PM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote:
> Typically, in the production of iron, hematite is reduced using coke or > coal… almost never with hydrogen. That is because there are known problems > with hydrogen, besides cost. > > > > The main reason for using carbon is that coal and coke is extremely cheap > – and it takes a lot of it, but hydrogen when present tends to cause > “hydrogen embrittlement” in iron, which could be related to UDH. In fact, > coke is used instead of coal because it has no hydrogen content. > > > > Embrittlement, in severe cases is related to long time exposure to > hydrogen, and this could indicate that some of the damage is being caused > by UDH, as it densifies and penetrates. IOW, any hydrogen exposure to iron > causes problems – and the longer the exposure, the worse the problem. > > > > *From:* Teslaalset > > > > Ø wouldn't that have caused numeral problems at traditional production > of magnetite using 3Fe2O3 + H2 → 2Fe3O4 +H2O, assuming UDH can be made in > a similar manner ? Holmlid indicated in one of his papers that UDH can be > formed as well using Shell 105 catalyst. > > The “leap of faith” and it is large… is that in a matrix of iron-oxide, > loaded with pressurized deuterium which is absorbed (and is bosonic) there > will be an continuous oscillation and change in volume of the nanopores, > when hematite changes to magnetite and back again – and this oscillation will > create shock waves which are comparable at that small geometry, to what > Holmlid sees with laser pulses. These would occur at IR frequencies in a > heated pressure vessel, which is also magnetized. Because of the IR, > there could be a plasmonic effect. > > The nano shock waves would be combined with large changes in local > magnetism, as the phase shifts from ferromagnetic ordering to > antiferromagnetic > rapidly. There is likely to be a contribution from DCE – the dynamical > Casimir effect. > >
