----- Original Message ---- From: Terry Blanton
> I'm sure you don't mean pure lithium electrodes for hydrolosis? :-) I will redo this post, as it was a first draft and not clear on how a device would be constructed, based on the operative hypothesis - but the pure metal cannot be used with water, as it is very reactive. And in any event the concentration of the light isotope is far too low in natural lithium. A method which could work using the pure metal - requires the isotope, 6Li, in a very high concentration, and in a vacuum chamber (hard vacuum) and surrounded by a very strong magnetic field. The low melting point of 358 F or 181C would be maintained in a very tight range, so that when irradiated with ultrasound, small vapor particles of the lithium isotope would ascend from the liquid - to be radiatively cooled - and separated by a technique to be more fully disclosed later. The idea is to produce what are essentially nanoparticles of a size which have spintronic properties -- such that they will have a very strong self-field (magnetic field), in that size range, and which are then repelled by the reactor field through a pinhole - to be processed further. The far more numerous vapor particles, which do not form into the correct size for a strong self-field when irradiated with ultrasound - those will eventually return to the melt. That part of the device is lossy, but only milligrams per minute will be required. More later, Jones
