In reply to Axil Axil's message of Sun, 15 Jan 2012 01:02:42 -0500: Hi, [snip] >Recrystallization temperatures for different metals > >Nickel---600C, > >Iron---450C, > >Copper---200C, > >Aluminum---150C, > >Zinc---Room Temperature, > >As depicted in the table above, even if copper can be used as a replacement >for Nickel in the Rossi reaction, the operating temperature of copper >nano-powder will be very low.
...However iron would have a reasonable working temperature, and there is a lot more iron than nickel (making it much cheaper). Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
