On Oct 25, 2009, at 1:56 PM, Terry Blanton wrote:
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net>
wrote:
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From: Terry Blanton
"It might be noted that, for pure Ni, the crystal structure is quite
similar to Pd whose face is only 36 pm larger."
Would it be your opinion then, that the A-Z alloy (84% Ni, 16% Pd)
would
have a slightly tighter internal "cavity" than pure palladium?
That could be
important, if true.
Literature indicates that the Pd segregates to the surface:
http://www.fzu.cz/activities/conferences/ecoss22/abstracts/17010.pdf
http://resources.metapress.com/pdf-preview.axd?
code=w5182k06n5871187&size=largest
which brings to mind one of Horace's writings on how deuterium enters
the lattice. I'll have to search his site unless he jumps in here.
If Pd inducts the hydrogen into the cell and it propagates to the
internal Ni structure, confinement should increase significantly.
This would increase the fusion population. Perhaps Pd funnels the
reactants into this geometry?
Terry
I am sorry to say my memory is just not very good so I'm not sure
what you mean.
I did some basic lattice computations here:
http://mtaonline.net/~hheffner/AtomicExpansion.pdf
Summarized here as compared to the Cubic Close Packed Structure using
bond lengths provided from webelements.com (at your request if I
recall correctly):
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/CCP.pdf
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
