Er, D2 is not a deuteride is it? That's why I thought you meant HD (hydrogen deuteride).
Anyway so you mean molecular deuterium D2 goes into e.g. the palladium (thus forming a palladium deuteride PdD), and H comes out? By which mechanism? Michel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robin van Spaandonk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 9:58 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Deuterium analysis In reply to Michel Jullian's message of Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:22:54 +0100: Hi Michel, >Hi Robin, I know of no such analysis but I am intrigued by your question > >> SIMS analysis run on either pure deuterium > >In which form ? Can one run a SIMS analysis on a gas? > >> where *only* the deuteride went in, but some H (1H) came out? > >You mean HD goes into the metal and H comes out? No, I mean D2 goes in and H is detected by SIMS. [snip] Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://users.bigpond.net.au/rvanspaa/ Competition (capitalism) provides the motivation, Cooperation (communism) provides the means.

