On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 08:35:49 -0700 Jones Beene wrote: > In a curious coincidence (returning for a moment > to the even more scandalous subject of vehicles > powered by so-called WaterFuel), my source tells > me that the "fuel grade" of preconditioned water > he uses is "thick like syrup" after an overnight > conditioning.
Let's hope it was no co-incidence but evidence that both are manifestations of the same phenomena. Did the "source" appreciate the significance of his phrase "thick like syrup" ======================================== The Soviet physicist Nikolai Fedyakin, working at a small government research lab in Kostroma, Russia, had performed measurements on the properties of water that had been condensed in or repeatedly forced through narrow quartz capillary tubes. Some of these experiments resulted in what was seemingly a new form of water with a higher boiling point, lower freezing point, and much higher viscosity than ordinary water, about that of a syrup. Boris Derjaguin, director of the laboratory for surface physics at the Institute for Physical Chemistry in Moscow, heard about Fedyakin's experiments. He improved on the method to produce the new water, and though he still produced very small quantities of this mysterious material, he did so substantially faster than Fedyakin did. ======================================== And when one looks up Boris Derjaguin one reads the following. ======================================== Professor Boris Vladimirovich Derjaguin (August 9, 1902 - May 16, 1994) was one of the greatest Soviet/Russian chemists on the twentieth century. As a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences he laid the foundation of the modern science of colloids and surfaces. An epoch in the development of the physical chemistry of colloids and surfaces is associated with his name. Derjaguin became famous in scientific circles for his work on the stability of colloids and thin films of liquids which is now known as the DLVO theory, after the initials of its authors: Derjaguin, Landau, Verwey, and Overbeek. It is universally included in text books on colloid chemistry and is still widely applied in modern studies of interparticle forces in colloids. ======================================== He doesn't sound like someone who would make an egregious mistake does he. But if one takes into account the cataclysmic changes that waterfuel will eventually make in the world distribution of economic power, one would have to be rather naive to think that those with this power would yield it easily or willingly. Frank
