Hi Eric, I think your right. The yttrium signal was Tom Droege's Pd/D cell. This was Pd/D just so there is no confusion with the Ni/H experiments. I wish I could recall what Tom's theory was. He was pretty excited about it though. To be honest with everyone, I think it was a mis-identified peak by the EDAX system as you suggest Eric. But it kind of fun to think back a how interesting a paper would have been.
Best Regards, Chuck On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 12:44 AM, Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > >
