Well said again… and what happens to this corrosive force when there is little or no oxygen to release itself upon?
_____________________________________________ From: Jones Beene [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2012 11:03 AM To: [email protected] Subject: EXTERNAL: [Vo]:pH acidity and hydrogen 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
