I wondered the same thing. That would be funny if this so called ferro-magnetic carbon was actually iron. They must have checked for the presence of iron... ??? Harry
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Michael Foster <mf...@yahoo.com> wrote: > 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 <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > >> From: Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> >> Subject: [Vo]:Ferromagnetic form of carbon >> To: vortex-l@eskimo.com >> 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. >> >> >
