It does appear that Arata has created something like Raney Ni by deoxy of the Zirconia in the alloy. In the Raney process, the Al is removed by heat leaving the porous Ni scaffolding. Maybe something of the same is happening in the ZrONiPd. The "Arata fusion metal?"
Terry On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Anyone interested in Arata's ICCF-15 handout should please contact me by > private e-mail. > > The handout is titled Production of Helium and Energy in the "Solid Fusion" > > It is poorly written. It begins: > > Experiment: > > It was studied that many factors having effects on the reaction heat in > solid-state fusion, for instance: the gas flow rate, vessel structure and > size, and cooling condition. > > Two kinds of powder were investigated under the same conditions: one is nano > powder ZrO2Pd35 (: ZrPd alloy), and the other is Zr02Ni3oPd5 (: ZrNiPd > alloy). > As shown in Fig. 1, X-ray diffraction analysis was carried out for both of > the nano powder ZrPd and ZrNiPd. From Fig.l [A], we can see that almost all > of the palladium elements exist as the palladium oxide (PdO) in the original > nano powder (ZrPd). Based on this X-ray analysis results, to remove the > Oxygen from the original powder, a "deoxidization treatment" is very > important for the nano powder ZrPd before the general pressurization of the > powder with D2 gas. > > The process of "deoxidization treatment" is as follows: > > (1) Firstly, the nano powder ZrPd was sealed inside the stainless vessel > and then vacuumed at room temperature until the vacuum up to about 5 x 10 "5 > torr. Then the vessel(with the sample powder inside) was baked and vacuumed > at 150 [°C], kept for 6 hours, then was cooled down to room temperature. The > vacuum of vessel was about 5 x 10^-6 torr at room temperature. . . . > > > - Jed > >
