This work is based on the assumption that there is no iron deposited in the carbon "soot". Years ago I did a number of experiments that convinced me that carbon can be transmuted into iron in an electric arc. I am certainly not the first person to observe this, but I did extensive testing on the results and found unequivocally that iron is created from carbon under the right conditions. I'll bet these folks didn't bother to test for the presence of iron in their ferromagnetic carbon.
M. --- On Tue, 2/21/12, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Jones Beene <[email protected]> > Subject: [Vo]:Ferromagnetic form of carbon > To: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 8:51 PM > Ockham's razor at work ... (sometimes > Ock. doesn't work; after all it is not > a 'law' -but in the case of the putative fusion of carbon to > iron, there is > little doubt that it provides a close and comfortable shave; > and 'conserves > a few miracles' as well. > Magnetic Soot; July 2004; Scientific American Magazine; by > Graham P. Collins > Recent decades have seen great interest in novel carbon > structures such as > buckyballs and nanotubes. In 1997 researchers in Australia > discovered yet > another form of carbon: a spidery, fractal-like composition > they dubbed > nano-foam. At this year's March meeting of the American > Physical Society, > the group reported that this gossamer substance is > ferromagnetic (like > iron), the only type of pure carbon that has that property. > The foam's > magnetic behavior suggests that innovative uses might be > possible, such as > serving as a contrast-enhancing agent in magnetic resonance > imaging. > Andrei V. Rode and his co-workers at the Australian National > University in > Canberra created carbon nano-foam when they blasted a glassy > form of carbon > with a series of short laser pulses in a container filled > with inert argon > gas. The pulses produced a plume of carbon vapor that > settled as a thin > layer on the vessel walls. To the naked eye, it looks like a > conventional > soot deposit. > End of abstract. > >
