At 11:05 AM 5/13/2010, Jones Beene wrote:
http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/KitamuraAanomalouse.pdf
... which apparently you mistook for another Kitamura paper.
Kitamura also finds anomalous heat from hydrogen in a Phase 1
(non-nuclear) loading phase. This is above the heat of formation of
the hydride.
Please look at Table 1 to see what I am talking about. Do you
disagree with that these findings are accurate? Do you have another
explanation?
I had referred to Arata, you then referred to Arata and Kitamura. So
I looked for Arata and Kitamura together and then at the most recent
work. I think this paper above was older, though it's not dated.
Kitamura et al report:
For Pd.Zr oxide nano-powders, anomalously large
energies of hydrogen isotope absorption, 2.4 +/- 0.4 eV/D-atom and 1.8 +/- 0.4
eV/H-atom, as well as large loading ratio of D/Pd =1.1 +/- 0.0 and
H/Pd = 1.1 +/-
0.3, respectively, were observed in the phase of deuteride/hydride formation.
I know only a tiny amount about the heat of formation of palladium
hydride. Kitamura does not state how large the anomaly is. I do have
an impression, from my scans of various papers, that the heat of
hydride formation varies with the exposure of the surface. What this
means and whether or not it could explain the anomaly is beyond me.
Life is full of anomalies that I will never explain.
