Ethanol is usually available in the US only as denatured Ethanol, even
as "reagent grade". The additives are usually Methanol and Isopropyl, at
up to 10% by volume. For that reason, I have not done the test using
pure Ethanol, and we don't know what Mizuno used anyway. I did confirm
that CaCO3 is insoluble in alcohols. I have also added a reference in my
document related to the complex ionic chemistry of CaCO3 in aqueous
solution.
Regarding your second comment, note that Methanol is not added to the
water soak solution, but is only used as a final rinse following the
soak at 90°C, as specified by Mizuno. Such final rinsing is often done
in chemical processes to remove residual water.
AlanG
On 7/31/2019 9:06 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Alan should make sure ethanol vs =methnol does not make any
difference in the deposition of caco3 crystals on the Ni mesh.Jed
should ask Mizuno about this question.
Bob Cook
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*From:* Axil Axil <[email protected]>
*Sent:* Monday, July 29, 2019 9:15:19 PM
*To:* vortex-l <[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [Vo]:Calcium as a Mills catalyst
https://docs.google.com/document/d/16dP_SmSP8SuQbZ7p9eGoCwf1vwJKh7KPL7NAYv7j13o/edit
Calcium as a LENR catalyst???
On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 10:43 PM JonesBeene <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Thanks Jeff –
This could be important. Limelight – as old-fashioned as it may
seem at first - has long been claimed to have a number of optical
properties which look like they are related to hydrino creation.
On a related topic, and looking at Fig.3 in the first cited paper,
which is the emission spectra of calcium sulfate, the peak is at
580 nm.
Coincidentally (or not) the palladium optical anomaly where the
metal switches sharply from photon reflector to perfect absorber
is at 590 nm. That would only be relevant if calcium carbonate has
its peak at about the same value.
There are a number of reasons to think the Mizuno breakthrough
relates more to Mills’ theory than to LENR.
Jones
*From: *Jeff Driscoll <mailto:[email protected]>
and calcium oxide is a candoluminescent material where limelight
is given off when hydrogen is exposed to the material at high
temperature:
http://zhydrogen.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Candoluminescence-of-cave-gypsum.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXl6H7G6BMU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limelight
On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 9:26 PM Jones Beene <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
For those who have not carefully followed Mills' work on dense
hydrogen (hydrino) - calcium is listed as a favored catalyst.
This could be important (or not) in the context of the recent
Mizuno breakthrough ... certainly it has not been mentioned
before but perhaps it should be (at least listed as a
possibility) due to a few other related details.
The Rydberg level for Ca is the fifth - 1/5 as it is inverted
and notably calcium is the one of the few for this level of
shrinkage. There is complementary catalysis with the other
potential catalysts present, since there is palladium - first
level, oxygen/carbonate ion - 2nd level, nickel 7th and 11th
and now calcium in the middle - so that there is a deepening
progression which could set up a cascade of some kind.
If one is not tied down to any particular M.O. or theory -
then this spread of catalysis values could be relevant in the
context of Alan Goldwater's new report on his early stage
effort at replication where he finds calcium:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/16dP_SmSP8SuQbZ7p9eGoCwf1vwJKh7KPL7NAYv7j13o/edit
Really nice insight by Alan.
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Jeff Driscoll
617-290-1998
