In reply to Abd ul-Rahman Lomax's message of Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:43:02 -0500: Hi, [snip] >And, another comment. The triple tracks reported as 10 per chip in >the Naturwissenschaften report were using a silver cathode. It >appears from other work of theirs that neutrons become far more >common when the cathode is gold. [snip] For what it's worth, the energy required to spall a neutron from the silver isotopes is a bit more than 9 MeV. That required for gold is about 8 MeV. Perhaps this goes some way toward explaining why gold results in more neutrons than silver? Though I suspect that the real reason has more to do with the actual number of LENR reactions taking place in the different lattices.
BTW gold is also softer than silver, which may be an indication or more lattice defects? Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
