Brad and all, There are a couple of interesting points in all of this - which can easily be overlooked.
Arcing carbon does produce a species with magnetic susceptibility, but it is probably not iron made by fusion. It not necessarily even magnetic graphite - and we do know that graphite can be made to be paramagnetic (but that product it is a precise specialty and what we see in the video is not precision). And since graphite is normally diamagnetic - we would not expect the paramagnetic version to appear under these circumstances of a simple arc of pencil lead. But the main point is that the residue does not need to be ferromagnetic (iron, nickel, cobalt, etc) at all, as opposed to paramagnetic. Strong paramagnetism alone will suffice and will stick to a ferromagnet. In the video, the poster apparently does not understand paramagnetism ... oh well. We can forgive the oversight on YouTube. Also it should be noted that oxygen is so strongly paramagnetic that oxidized iron (ferrites) can and do make better permanent magnets than pure iron. But the most important point of all is this: carbon black (soot) can be partially oxidized as a solid dust which is strongly paramagnetic. You can do this in a starved candle flame - you do not need the hoopla of an arc. Furthermore: pencil lead is far from carbon per se, but instead is a mixture of graphite and clay binder. All clays have some iron and aluminum content (almost all) but even if there were none - we should realize that carbon-13 itself is paramagnetic and is over 1% of all carbon. Now Bockris in similar experiments used nearly pure carbon and eliminated clay, but surprisingly the great scientist overlooks both 13C and the strong paramagnetism of oxygen as being more likely to be responsible for the paramagnetism. In the famous phenanthrene experiments, which would have won the Nobel Prize for Mizuno if others could have replicated it (no one did AFAIK)- he finds that a substantial amount of carbon is converted from 12C to 13C in the reaction. This kind of LENR fusion is thousands of times easier to achieve than C+O fusion would be. Protons would have come from moisture in the air. But there is a more mundane and likely scenario. BTW - Mizuno may have been wrong about the substantial levels of transmutation, but if it was found to be true, then 13C has both a Nuclear Spin and a Nuclear magnetic moment and would be attracted to a magnet. 12C lacks both. Any of these possibilities are more likely than iron and oxygen fusing. The most likely and the mundane explanation of partially oxidized carbon soot - which is definitely paramagnetic due to the oxygen - that would be the first thing which would need to be eliminated as being the most probable explanation. "Conservation of Miracles" at work ... Jones -----Original Message----- From: ecat builder Arcing electricity across ordinary pencil lead (carbon) is a well-known method of demonstrating "cold" fusion. I've done it myself... http://blazelabs.com/n-transmut.asp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KV8hz5Ubfc - Brad
