Following up on Eric's mail, I have gotten other feedback on the side suggesting the "excess" heating can all be accounted for chemically in this particular case. I cannot comment on your analysis, Jones, but it seems caution may be called for here. (Unfortunately what received was actual pdf's which I cannot blast out to the alias for copyright reasons. I will see if there are links to said pdfs when I get a chance and post the links, if so.)
Jeff On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 11:02 AM, David Roberson <[email protected]> wrote: > Jones, > > I am reading your discussion of the Curie point of the alloy and have a > question for you. Is it safe to assume that each individual atom continues > to exhibit its local magnetic effects? If so, the Curie point must be a > result of geometrical considerations for the entire sample. I can see how > your description of superparamagnetism can get complicated. This post and > others imply that there likely are a wealth of discoveries lurking within > the realm of nano sized particles. > > Dave > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jones Beene <[email protected]> > To: vortex-l <[email protected]> > Sent: Fri, Oct 26, 2012 12:35 pm > Subject: RE: [Vo]:Hybrid Ni-H reproduction buried in the link forwarded by > Alan > > >This is fully consistent with an emerging nanomagnetism theory. > > It is also related to the “Reiter effect” with nickel-manganese or cobalt > hydriding reactions. > > I have a strong suspicion that the key to the thermal anomaly in many > experiments involving nickel and even palladium involves > “superparamagnetism”, which is a form of magnetism found only in > nanoparticles or thin-films which are ~10 nanometer thickness. > > How superparamagnetism translates into thermal gain is relatively easy to > imagine – and a way to maximize it is also apparent. In sufficiently small > nanoparticles, ferromagnetic or ferrimagnetic magnetization can randomly > flip direction under the influence of temperature. The typical time between > two flips is called the Néel relaxation time (typically below 1 nano-sec). > The result would be the same kind of inductive heating which is seen > electromagnet cores, except on steroids, so to speak, due to the extreme > spin flipping. QM nuclear effects are expected to occur at the same time – > but to be hundreds of time lower than the heat anomaly. > > These alloys often contain nickel or cobalt. However, palladium easily > forms superparamagnetic alloys– for a reason not yet known. When palladium > and deuterium are involved – the thermal anomaly due to superparamagnetism > can be masked by an eventual QM fusion reaction. The expected helium yield > is expected to be a small fraction of the net heat derived from magnetic > spin-flipping and in any event to be less than with protium. > > A problem with this hypothesis is the high temps seen > 400C which are > often around or over the Curie point of the alloy. Of course, that could be > a vital part of the puzzle, in that this is often a “trigger temperature” > when exotherm is seen. The larger problem is “where does anomalous heat > come from?” > > > > Jones< > > >
