On 12-01-16 04:55 PM, Terry Blanton wrote:
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence<[email protected]> wrote:
Say what? Where's all that atomic hydrogen coming from?
Are we back to splitting molecules using ZPE, or is there some other energy
source breaking the bond?
Geeze, Stephen, don't you pay attention? Molecular hydrogen IS
dissociated at the surface of metals. There's hundreds of accepted
papers on this. It's how metal crystals are loaded.
Sure, sure, but you still can't do it, *and* free the hydrogen from the
metal surface again again so it can re-associate, without getting the
energy to split the bond from SOMEPLACE.
COE, and all that.
A catalyst can reduce the *barrier* to a reaction taking place but can't
change the net energy balance of (reactants-in) -->
(reaction-products-out). (Or at least, the kind of catalysts they teach
about in schools can't do that.)
