Has anyone considered that if C12 were converted to C13, the 4.9 MeV
of energy released would break any chemical bond the C12 had within
the compound as well as many other chemical bonds in the vicinity?
Such a transformation should result in a large amount of pure carbon.
Consequently, the chemical structure would be clearly altered by as
much transformation that is claimed.
Ed
On Dec 8, 2008, at 8:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Mon, 8 Dec 2008 18:32:07 -0800
(PST):
Hi,
[snip]
Hi Robin,
Hydrogen gas was added to the experiment.
Yes indeed - but if I am not mistaken he clearly states that there
was NO significant hydrogenation, meaning of course that the
phenanthrene remained largely unaffected chemically; and that the
second (outsourced) MS was performed on the black residue. Possibly
it was even slightly hydrogen depleted by then, since in the
ongoing gas MS, some methane was seen.
[snip]
Only about half the C12 is purported to have converted to C13, which
means that
the remainder was methane and higher hydrocarbons, or just plain
C12. The
proportion that was plain C12 could easily have provided sufficient
H for the
other substances (even without the H2 gas).
Furthermore, production of C13 would also entail consumption of an H
atom, so a
scarcity of H would also limit the amount of C13 produced.
In short, I don't think H scarcity was a limiting factor.
Regards,
Robin van Spaandonk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
