On Jan 25, 2011, at 7:11 AM, Jones Beene wrote:
Let me organize the previous chain of thought …
First one detail – gold is an excellent spillover catalyst, plus it
is also specifically mentioned in the old patent.
It is seldom used as a catalyst due to cost but that is not
relevant at this point, since spillover catalysts work best in the
range of only 1% of the mass of the host metal/support.
1) Heavy-fermion superconductors are remarkable in having
electrons that effectively have hundreds of times their usual mass.
2) Muon-catalyzed fusion involves negative particles that have
206 times the mass of an electron.
3) The cross-connections between superconductivity and LENR are
numerous and have been mentioned in the past.
4) Palladium hydride is superconductive.
5) Nickel hydride is superconductive as alloy, with at least
one spillover catalyst - gold
The nature of the connection between two seemingly unrelated fields
is a mystery but it could be related to effectively large mass in
the Cooper pair which ‘occasionally’ shows up at higher
temperature. This also fits in with the QBEC hypothesis, since
those electrons may be effectively heavy.
This patent on nickel hydride superconductors is interesting in
regards to a possible dual role of a spillover catalyst.
High temperature superconductors and method
United States Patent 4043809
This invention comprises a superconductive compound having the
formula: Ni1-x Mx Zy
wherein M is a metal which will destroy the magnetic character of
nickel (preferably copper, silver or gold); Z is hydrogen or
deuterium; x is 0.1 to 0.9; and y, correspondingly, 0.9 to 0.1, and
method of conducting electric current with no resistance at
relatively high temperature of T>1° K comprising a conductor
consisting essentially of the superconducting compound noted above.
This is interesting, especially the case of Ni_x Zr_(1-x), which is
the same as Ni_(1-x) Zr(x), and which I mentioned earlier in the
category of metallic glasses which have been studied for their
properties when hydrogen is absorbed:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg41599.html
Also of possible interest is that my rough computation for the
deflated state up quark:
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/FusionUpQuark.pdf
shows that the deflated state electrons have a gamma of 36,000, and
mass of 3.3 x10^-26 kg, more than the rest mass of the deuteron. I
think it is likely such an electron transitions frequently into a W-,
and thus delays its stay in the deflated state, as well a increases
the probability of a weak reaction. This state is probably made more
likely by spin 0 partial orbitals, which should be common in a
hydrogen loaded glass, and which pass directly through the hydrogen
nucleus. Ni_x Zr_(1-x), Fe_x Zr_(1-x), and Nb_x Zr_(1-x) have been
high on my list of things to try with protium, because pure Zr had
such good properties. Now that Rossi has had such good luck with Ni,
I figure Ni_x Zr_(1-x) has risen to the top.
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
