This is not a typical JB dyslexic misspelling.
"Recalescence" is a most deadly phenomenon. It may have relevance
to the Mizuno explosion and certainly to the P&F "runaway"
anomaly - which gouged out a pit in a concrete floor. I have had a
chance to go over this report with some experts who are not
convince that this is anything other than recalescence - while
leaving open the possibility that a closer isotopic analysis might
prove otherwise.
Ref: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
"Recalescence"
SYLLABICATION:re·ca·les·cence
NOUN:A sudden glowing in a cooling metal caused by liberation of
the latent heat of transformation.
ETYMOLOGY:From Latin present participle of recalscere, to grow
warm again : re-, re- + calscere, to become warm, inchoative of
calre, to be warm;
More to the point, this is a very rapid heating phenomenon
associated with simulatnaeous phase-change in metals, especially
metals near a phase transition tmeperature. With "loaded metals"
the problem can be magnified greatly.
The energy is in the range of chemical but the time frame for
dumping it is so short that it can possibly either cause secondary
nuclear reactions (due to accelerations of ions) or be mistaken
for more violent than it is.
IF - that is, recalescence is what happened in the Mizuno
situation - either alone or as a pre-cursor event - which is still
unclear since most of the elements he finds on his cathode could
have been dissolved from the pyrex and deposited on the electrode
during the explosion - then greater care should be taken by
everyone when doing this type of work.
The death toll in steel mills - due to recalescence over the
centuries is likely to be in the thousands. Yet how many of you
have ever even heard the term?
I had not - even though on talking to an inlaw, I have discovered
that his brother probably died in the this type of accident in the
infamous Gary, Indiana USS plant.
But ... speaking of the confusing homonym for "recalescence" -
which is "recollection" - here is Brian Ahern's recollection of a
related, but even more tragic event - and one which he had tried
in vain to call-in a warning only days before it happened....
"It is my firm belief that recalescence is the process that killed
Andrew Riley back in 1993-94. The shift in energy from the
tetrahedral sites back to octahedral is amplified by an order of
magnitude by the energy stored in the anharmonic oscillations of
the hydrogen nuclei. It is not merely a structural rearrangement;
it is a significant source of latent heat that is little known.
I observed it several times in my crystal growth of Indium
Phosphide when the molten semiconductor melt would cool about 300
degrees centigrade below it melting point without solidifying. The
melt was surrounded by molten boric oxide and this prevented
nucleation of the solid phase when conditions were free of foreign
impurities.
Recalescence in the metal hydride system is something quite
different. Frustration of the anharmonic modes back to harmonic
modes for the hydrogen sublattice inevitable induces a rapid
increase in temperature of the host metal. This in turn, causes
the hydrogen to exit the lattice where it recombines as H2. This
recombination releases 9 eV per molecule! That is slightly more
energy than is released by combining hydrogen with oxygen.
The total energy release is equivalent in energy density to a
plastic explosive. I do not believe that this is the mechanism
for Mizuno's system since he had only about 0.2 grams of W
activated.
His EDX analysis is open to interpretation since the Pyrex vessel
contains ample amounts of calcium and silicon that could have
transported to the surface of the tungsten and formed a thin layer
there. The EDX technique only samples a depth of about 30
Angstroms, so it only requires micrograms of impurities to look
like substantial transmutation."
END
Also it should be noted that the EDX technique, used by Mizuno,
cannot determine isotope shifts --- and any such assertion in the
Mizuno document were "interpretations" and not actual isotope
shifts. It is still an open case as to whether this was nuclear at
all. If it had been nuclear, Mizuno should have been killed
instantly from the gamma radiation (unless of course this is the
Hallmark gamma-less radiation of LENR.
Very mysterious indeed.
Jones
