Nickel nano-particles are superparamagnetic. They interact with dipole vibration. This may be the reason why nickel nanostructures are important in the nanoplasmonic causation of LENR.
* Magnetic relaxation of a system of superparamagnetic particles weakly coupled by dipole-dipole interactions http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1109/1109.4294.pdf * On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Bob Higgins <rj.bob.higg...@gmail.com>wrote: > I don't understand why 62Ni would make a difference in the reaction. Are > we now seriously considering that the Ni nucleus participates in the > nuclear reaction that causes the heat? Dr. Storms proposes that physical > cracks in the lattice are the NAE and the money crop of the reaction does > not have any Ni nuclei being consumed except as a possible side reaction. > If the NAE are cracks (plausible but far from certain), then would the > 62Ni create a more desirable crack than a 60Ni or a 64Ni? How would the > isotope affect the crack as an NAE? Wouldn't only valence/conduction band > electron effects show up in the crack? If so, how could an isotope in the > lattice have any effect on what happens in the crack? > > At William and Mary's ILENR-12, Dr. Peter Hagelstein told me that > transmutation of Ni is endothermic. > > > On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 4:18 PM, DJ Cravens <djcrav...@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> Ni 62 has zero spin but the others have a nuclear spin component. So >> I should be relatively easy to come up with a way to separate them. >> >> D2 >> > >
