Sorry, please excuse me; I was thinking about the Triple alpha process:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Z0IPWmm7GDc With Carbon 12 => Boron 11 (5 protons and 6 neutrons) with a proton emission The net positive charge of the gas from proton emmision causes the back current as seen coming comin from the electrodes as the gas contracts. Cheers: Axil On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 7:28 PM, <mix...@bigpond.com> wrote: > In reply to Axil Axil's message of Fri, 10 Aug 2012 18:05:03 -0400: > Hi, > [snip] > >This causes aneutronic > >fusion of three helium atoms into Boron11 and a proton. > > This reaction doesn't happen. It's endothermic to the tune of about 8 MeV. > In > fact the reverse reaction (p+B11 -> 3 * He4) is the dream of hot fusion > scientists. > > Regards, > > Robin van Spaandonk > > http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html > >
