On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote:
For instance - Y is element 39 and it consists of ~100% of the one stable > isotope - which is 88.9 amu, having 29 protons and 40 neutrons with no > other > isotope. > I think you're right to focus on the weird transmutations. Yttrium is one of them. It is not like the others. I think you're talking about a Pd/D system. You probably have in mind a specific reference -- can you share it? Several possibilities in this instance: 1. 92Zr + p -> 89Y + 4He 2. 92Zr + D -> 90Y + 4He 3. 88Sr + p -> 89Y + gamma According to Hioki et al. [1], impurities that can be found in palladium include Pt, Ru, Ag, Rh, Fe and Si. It is possible that zirconium can also be found in the palladium or that it leached in from metal in the environment. Also, Murase et al. report that XPS, which I believe is a relative of EDAX, can have a hard time distinguishing between different species of the same mass; e.g., for a mass of 96, it would have a hard time resolving GaAl, Ca2O, CaFe and 96Mo [2]. So there might be something similar going on for Yttrium under EDAX as well. But the point is a good one -- when I did my analysis of some of the transmutations that have been reported, a significant number, but by no means all, could be sorted out using P/D capture, so there would appear to be something else going on, perhaps in addition to P/D capture, or perhaps instead of it. Eric [1] http://www.iscmns.org/CMNS/JCMNS-Vol6.pdf, p. 64 ff. [2] http://www.iscmns.org/CMNS/JCMNS-Vol6.pdf, p. 34 ff.
