Hey Mark! Axil and I have been dancing around this idea also in a recent thread (http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l%40eskimo.com/msg45022.html)
I have a strong feeling that there are some electro-magnetic effects playing an important role here. and I also found this tidbit on wikipedia: > Nickel is a naturally magnetostrictive material, meaning that in the > presence of a magnetic field, the material undergoes a small change in > length.[41] In the case of nickel, this change in length is negative > (contraction of the material), which is known as negative > magnetostriction and is on the order of 50 ppm On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 19:31, Mark Iverson <[email protected]> wrote: > Could the magnetic field generated by the resistive heaters be inducing some > other effects that help promote the reaction, or inductively heat the > Nickel??? > > -Mark
