In reply to Axil Axil's message of Tue, 14 May 2019 00:34:05 -0400: Hi, >How about the hazard risks?
Note the "human contact" from a previous post. When the material was analyzed/used the Triiron dodecarbonyl would probably have dissociated into Fe + CO again, and the CO escaped as a gas, leaving just Fe & Si in the proper proportions. The CO would likely not have been noticed in a reasonably ventilated space. I'm far from certain that this scenario actually occurred, but it is a possibility, and I think more a likely explanation than a transmutation reaction that produced no apparent energy. Note that 4.5 ton of CO converted to Si would yield an energy of over 56 million tons of TNT. This is about as much as the largest nuclear weapon ever tested (Soviet "Tsar Bombe"). Not very likely to have gone unnoticed on a daily basis. ;). Note also that in a transmutation scenario, CO would need to have been transmuted to both Fe & Si in just the right proportions to maintain the correct overall ratio of Fe-Si (1:3 by weight?). This would imply an extraordinary degree of control over two different nuclear reactions that they didn't even know were happening. Furthermore, the reaction that they proposed to create the Fe used O18, which is only 0.2% of natural Oxygen, and though I haven't run the numbers, my gut tells me that there just wouldn't have been enough of it present in the input materials. > >Safety Information of Triiron dodecarbonyl (CAS NO.17685-52-8): >Hazard Codes: [image: Flammable]F,[image: Harmful]Xn,[image: Toxic]T > >On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 9:00 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > >> In reply to Axil Axil's message of Sun, 12 May 2019 20:28:44 -0400: >> Hi, >> [snip] >> >The externally low Melting point?: ?165 °C (329 °F; 438 K) would seem to >> >me to be a dead give-a-way to the presence of 25% volume of Fe3(CO)12 by >> >weight. >> >> If the output from the reactor/furnace were cooled very rapidly, there >> could >> still be CO trapped inside that could form such crystals, where they would >> be >> exposed to neither air nor human contact. >> [snip] >> Regards, >> >> >> Robin van Spaandonk >> >> local asymmetry = temporary success >> >> Regards, Robin van Spaandonk local asymmetry = temporary success
