Ummm, the surface area was not increased by very much, but the bulk was increased significantly and P-F saw a meltdown result. It points to a bulk effect rather than a surface effect.
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 11:52 PM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe that this type of meltdown occurs when nano-particles become > dense enough and suspended in the hydrogen gas or another dielectric to > support dipole formation and charge separation. > > > > In the Pons & Fleishmann incident, the dielectric could have been glass > or concrete. > > > > I suppose that if you mix nano-particles in a solid dielectric like > glass, the LENR reaction might take hold. > > > > If you remember, there was a report that DGT put some glass in their > reactor and the glass melted. It may have happened that nano-particles > melted into the glass and the reaction took off. > > > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 2:34 AM, Kevin O'Malley <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Then I ask you to visit this thread and comment. No one had anything >> else to say after I talked about P&F's meltdown. >> >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg77082.html >> >> On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 11:27 PM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> it is a surface phenomenon rather than a bulk phenomenon >>> >>> >>> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 2:00 AM, Kevin O'Malley <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Let us take an example…A crack with two faces or two nano-particles >>>> separated by a few nano-meters can separate charge through dipole >>>> vibration >>>> with electrons gathering on one side of the crack or nano-particle and >>>> electrons on the other face of the crack or the other nano-particle. >>>> ***Does this mean for your polariton hypothesis to be true that it is a >>>> surface phenomenon rather than a bulk phenomenon? I would think that BECs >>>> are a bulk phenomenon, with the EFFECTs of the nuclear reactions getting >>>> pushed out to the surface like a river washes a landslide & a bunch of >>>> trees to a chokepoint. You notice the backed up river at the chokepoint >>>> but that isn't where the actual phenomenon took place. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >
