In reply to Abd ul-Rahman Lomax's message of Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:27:12 -0400: Hi, [snip] >1. Cathode wire will be gold, 0.010 inch diameter. Galileo was >silver. Gold is chosen because later SPAWAR work showed much more >neutron evidence with a gold cathode. I'd say that nobody knows why. >But it's neutrons I'll be looking for.
I suspect that Au is heavy enough to fission when it occasionally fuses with D, yielding a few excess neutrons. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
