"TT" is an acronym with a number of connotations. -Telex transfer - money transfer (from the prePC era)
-Tritone, a pleasing musical interval -Teatotal - abstinence from alcohol (not-so-pleasing) -Tourist Trophy - British race often won preWar by Auto Union (aka Audi & their sportscar made in Hungary). ... and now presenting: "Transient Trioxide" There are several common chemical reactions, most involving chlorine, which have been studied for over 100 years yet there exists today major gaps in our understanding of what intermediates and metastable compounds are generated, and for how long (lifetime). "Metastability" (and phase-change) may be two keys to finding useful energy anomalies. There are even a few reactions involving only air and water which are not well described in the literature. http://www.scripps.edu/newsandviews/e_20040913/wentworth.html This TT or transient trioxide is air-water reaction found ubiquitously in cell biology but may have relevance to alternative energy. It may be involved in some kinds of electrolysis. So-called "super-oxidation" has been considered a possible gateway towards increased efficiency in combustion, such as in automotive engines - and also for water purification. In a nutshell, you can possibly gain as much by focusing on a novel oxidizer as by focusing on alternative fuel. Ozone, chlorine and peroxide are only slightly stronger oxidants than trioxide (H2O3) or dihydrogen trioxide, but expensive, or toxic, or too often fully bound in solution. Few things in life are cheaper than mixing air and water with a little charge ...(as if that were all there was to it) ... but if and when that can be engineered "on demand" in order to change the binding structure of salt water, then new chemistry and new physics are poised to result. Imagine a blown-up image of the H2O water molecule, realizing that the "mickey-mouse-ears" half of the molecule will have a slight positive charge, www.lenntech.com/images/Water%20molecule.jpg ...and realizing that an O2 molecule has a high electron affinity. Ergo, when a free electron in solution becomes attracted and temporarily trapped between mickey's ears, the O2 molecule if present will attach for a short time span, and voila: TT "transient-trioxide" not the Audi model but both are pretty hot. Problem, water holds some O2 in solution but not really very much - without some help. Hemoglobin is one way to get help and a magnetic field is another. TT or Dihydrogen trioxide has been called a "new" oxidant (as in "new to me") but since it is as old as life itself and is probably found in the metabolism of all single celled lifeforms, this situation only reinforces how "lacking" mainstream science really is (despite the assurances of practitioners) - in 2008. Until the last decade few biologists even appreciated the magnitude of the trioxide role in the life process. Now... in the spirit of biomimicry - lets imagine an engineered situation where one can get the two molecules: O2 and H2O to 'stick together' for a fractional-second around an electron: in say- an electrolysis cell. At that point, the dihydrogen trioxide becomes a potential "oxy-fuel" since it competes with chlorine for the sodium ion, but unlike Cl it cannot ionize and bind in solution. H2O3 is therefor a most interesting metastable oxidant molecule, having the theoretical potential to achieve a measure of "free-energy" due to the ease (low barrier) of formation (on paper and in biology). It should actively cool any solution in which it is formed. It might even be used for efficient cooling (Air conditioning) some day. ... and TT reportedly has greatly increased stability when seven molecules form into a ring, not unlike the six-fold symmetry of ice. But even so, it is never very stable ... which can be a good thing. If enough resources ever become available, one of the first things I want to try is bubbling O2 through a negatively charged needle into water at 1-3 C. to see if any TT-ice can accumulate, and if so, how violent the decay of such might be. Sounds simple, eh? Could be a fizzler, but hey, inquiring minds want to know... Jones Hey Hooters, did I fail to mention any other TT crowd-pleasers in the intro? On a lighter, but more (pun)gent note: Is this an apt remembrance for all-time ... of our beloved "master of low expectations" ... fondly to be bestowed by the city where he is even less popular than was RMN in the summer of '74 ? http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/18/BA7A11QU1S.DTL flush twice ... its a long way to Crawford ;-)
