Oops. The O2 is removed by heat. The Al is removed by Sodium Hydroxide. I wonder what is the average age of listers here. Will we all become senile simultaneously?
Terry On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Terry Blanton <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> >
