Greetings, One detail that may not be apparent to all observers of Rossi/ DGT/ Thermacore, etc., in evaluation the possibility of “transmutation” is acidity. Since we are not dealing with liquids, or an acid or base per se, we can opine that there is a mechanism for “virtual acidity” with gaseous hydrogen, when ionized.
This explains how stainless steel can be effectively dissolved at a slow
rate if a spillover catalyst is available, resulting in various elements
moving spatially. It is as if a strong acid or base were in there, instead
of an non-corrosive gas.
In chemistry, pH is a measure of the activity of the hydrogen ion. There, we
are talking about hydronium ions H3O+, but pH is a still a measure of
hydrogen ion concentration relevant to corrosion by acids or bases.
With pressurized hydrogen gas, a spillover catalyst like Ni-Cu or tungsten,
will effectively split hydrogen gas, H2, into IRH – inverted Rydberg
hydrogen, or in the case of Mills’ catalyst, like potassium – H2 goes to the
hydride ion f/H- with two electrons, which may be less effective as a
solvent than hydronium, more like a base in fact. But bases corrode many
transition metals. Corrosion is especially relevant to the first row (in the
periodic table) – and it is no accident that these elements have been
associated with hydrogen thermal anomalies from the start – Ti, Cr, Mn, Fe,
Co, Ni, Cu, Zn – a virtual “murderer’s row” so to speak … even vanadium has
shown up (in the Lattice, LLC presentation).
Think of the situation in a Ni-H reactor as “virtual pH”. The lower (or
higher) the better, from the PoV of attaining thermal anomalies … with the
downside that metals subject to acid or base attack, like copper, will be
effectively corroded, and atoms would be expected to move around significant
distances. Since copper-nickel alloy is an even better spillover catalyst
than nickel, this activity can be seen as autocatalytic, which may have been
Rossi’s main contribution (since he was apparently not aware of Romanowski,
at the start).
IOW - inadvertently, when using copper/brass/bronze in the early reactors,
AR may have discovered this spillover enhancement - and now, after switching
to all SS, he must alloy the copper with nickel at the start, as Romanowski
teaches.
* The most interesting result is shown in Fig. 13: new elements (Cr
and Mn) were detected in a wide region of a sample.
This is mundane. Cr and Mn are found in 304 stainless, which
is what his reactor is made of.
This is clearly electromigration – not an anomaly. In fact,
at the start he says “The heater consists of four plate coils, each made
from a small Ni-Cr slab”
… which is the obvious source of the Cr since, as it is an
alloy of the heater, it is electrically charged. 304 alloy also has 2% Mn.
Most of the transition metals are mobile when electrically charged,
especially with pressurized H2.
N.B. In contrast - there is real proof of transmutation
anomalies seen with Pd-D systems - which cannot be the result of
electromigration. Very rare elements turn up with deuterium in estimated
amount that cannot have been there initially, but that is not relevant to
Ni-H.
But most observers realize by now that Pd-D is extremely
different from Ni-H, just as hydrogen is extremely different from deuterium…
the 2:1 mass difference indicates the smoking gun of transmutation with D
….
Jones
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