Jones "If an inventor had Tellurium"----Who?????
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Subject: RE: [Vo]:Restricted Munitions List & Raney Nickel, Guess Why!
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:20:45 -0700
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Wm. Scott Smith
Ø While
we are on the subject, one could get the sort of heat they are talking about by
accelerating the decay of isotopes that are not even very radioactive,
normally. For example Thorium is many times less radioactive than U235 or
Plutonium…
Yes indeed. And were you aware that there are only four elements in the
periodic table which are heavier (in a.m.u.) than the next element above them
in the table?
As you might imagine (even not knowing the identity of the four) this
characteristic could be strongly indicative of some kind of nuclear instability,
even if the are not strongly radioactive under normal conditions.
The first three are quite well-known as the elements involved in
nuclear fission: thorium, uranium and plutonium.
Wow – with that kind of trifecta, one wonders how the fourth in
this grouping could be somehow related? Is it as potentially active?
Well, this fourth element is tellurium – element 52. It is
best known in the compounds bismuth-telluride, used in thermoelectrics, or
cadmium telluride in photovoltaics. It is extremely photoactive. It even has a
fabulous little town in Colorado named after it.
If an inventor were to be the among the leading experts in
thermoelectric generators at one time, and had a large DoE contract for
advanced TEG work - then it is to be expected that this person would have had a
lot of the Bi-Te material, sitting around for other experiments, no?
Jones
