It worth noting that nickel and copper are often found together in mineral deposits.
Harry > >From: Harry Veeder <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Wed, April 6, 2011 5:08:27 PM >Subject: Re: [Vo]:Nickel and Copper > > >oh it is not surprising that they are claiming copper is produced, since even >on >the standard peoridic table nickel and copper are neighbors. > >Stellar fusion can account for the lighter elements up to and including iron, >but how the heavier elements arose is not so clear. Indeed, most of the >heavier >elements might be produced by cold fusion >processes. > >Cold fusion may be occurring all around us and in us. > > >Harry > >> >>From: Esa Ruoho <[email protected]> >>To: [email protected] >>Sent: Wed, April 6, 2011 2:52:09 PM >>Subject: Re: [Vo]:Nickel and Copper >> >>This question made me check out Walter Russell's Periodic Chart of the >>Elements, and in there, Nickel and Copper are right next to eachother in >>the >>7th octave, listed as isotopes. On top of Nickel there's Cobalt, and below >>Copper there's Zinc, Gallium and Germanium. >>http://www.flickr.com/photos/esaruoho/2357267257/sizes/o/in/photostream/ >> >>So I guess I shouldn't be surprised that someone would be muck around with >>Nickel and end up with Copper. >> >> >> >>On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Harry Veeder <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>Has it ever be explained, using stellar nucleosynthesis theory, why naturally >>occurring nickel and copper have the isotopic distribution that they have? >>>Harry >>> >>>> >>>>From: Stephen A. Lawrence <[email protected]> >>>>To: [email protected] >>>>Sent: Wed, April 6, 2011 10:33:19 AM >>>>Subject: Re: [Vo]:RE: [Vo]:Swedish physicists on the E-cat: "It's a nuclear >>>>reaction" / The used powder contains ten percent copper >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>On 04/06/2011 10:23 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: >>>>Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>The mundane reason for the appearance of iron an copper is electromigration. >>>> >>>> >>>>Where are the electric fields that would cause electromigration? There are >>>>no >>>>fields in copper pipes as far as I know. >>>> >>>>Kullander does say ". . . it’s remarkable that nickel-58 and hydrogen can >>>>form >>>>copper-63 (70%) and copper-65 (30%)." >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>I guess that means they measured the isotopes. >>>He *said* they measured the isotopes. >>> >>>He said, specifically, the ratios for both nickel and copper didn't vary >>>from >>>natural abundances: "The isotopic analysis through ICP-MS doesn’t show any >>>deviation from the natural isotopic composition of nickel and copper." >>> >>> >>> >>>They used XRFS and ICP-MS. XRFS measures only elements as I recall, whereas >>>ICP-MS detects isotopes. >>>> >>>> >>>>It would be a little odd if the reaction produced copper with a natural >>>>isotopic >>>>distribution. >>That's a marvelous understatement! And don't forget that the nickel wasn't >>differentially depleted, either -- its ratios were natural, as well. >> >>It's more likely that Levi is in on the gag than that transmutation from >>nickel >>to copper produced "natural" isotope ratios in the ash. The former merely >>requires the assumption that a few humans are acting unusually stupid (which >>happens frequently). The latter requires something close to a miracle (and >>miracles are very rare). >> >> >> >> >>> >>>- Jed >>> >>> >>
