Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think it is important that the calorimeter not cool the outside wall of > the reactor much more than this air-flow calorimeter does. I think that > would interfere with the reaction, or prevent it. That was a problem with > Mizuno's earlier calorimeter, as we described in some of the papers. It was > also the problem with McKubre's calorimeter, according to Fleischmann. > Fleischmann and McKubre strongly disagreed about this. > That's unfair to Mike. Martin strongly disagreed. In later years, I recall Mike tacitly agree that Martin was right about this. Anyway, if you want to replicate this experiment, you should have a calorimeter that puts the cell in something similar to room temperature air. Don't wrap tubes of flowing water around it. That's what Mizuno did for a few years. It didn't work. Or it barely worked. - Jed
