On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote:
> Apparently, this problem of self-extinguishing operation (aka 'quiescence') > has not been solved. I have some technical information to share on that > subject, for a later post. McKubre has stated that quiescence also occurs in Pd/D reactions which tends to lead one to the conclusion that the reaction sites are somehow altered. It sounds like the knife edge is dulled and needs to be resharpened. I suspect that in the Ni/H reaction the surface area is reduced by a melting and "smoothing" action in the nanopowder. T