On Jan 13, 2006, at 2:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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From: Horace Heffner
...uh... palladium, platinum and titanium are hydride forming metals.
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Yeah, but as Jones points out, they are not covalent hydrides.
Actually, there are there are also ionic hydrides. I think what
Dash does here is distinguish between and interstitial hydride and
the bound hydrides. Here's a reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_hydride
All over the place is literature that refers to hydrogen adsorbed in
Pd etc. as a *hydride*.
The above reference even says: "Hydrides can be roughly classified
into three main types by the nature of bonding and structure:
Ionic hydrides
Covalent hydrides
Transitional metal hydrides, interstitial hydrides."
Apples can be divided into 3 main types:
Macintoshes
Apple II's
Others
So, does this mean my Mac is not an Apple, but rather a golden
delicious?
The verbiage in patent applications must be very rigorous, especially
in the claims, but the claims generally use terminology from the
description, which then so defines that terminology.
Of side interest I see it says: "The dihydrogen molecule (H2) shares
electron with palladium in some yet unknown manner and hides itself
within the spaces of the palladium metal crystal structure." This
person hasn't seen the literature on partial orbitals yet. 8^)
Horace Heffner
