Fran,
The Celani wire treatment is not the same as what happens with Raney nickel,
after aluminum is leached out. The oxidation step of Celani migrates or
draws copper to the surface of the wire as an oxide - and hydrogen reduction
then adds porosity, and those pores are mainly in the copper. Are there
pores in the nickel which is left behind? Doubt it.
As for enrichment . since we do see copper migration - we could ask this:
does copper take along a nickel isotope preferentially when it migrates?
Copper is mostly the isotope 63Cu which has the identical number of neutrons
as Rossi's active nickel - 62Ni. Does that kind of "shared neutron identity"
mean that copper migration would correlate with isotope enrichment somehow?
Hmmm... It is a stretch but perhaps there is some latent property of
neutrons in a spatial array in a nucleus which encourages this. Maybe the is
something like a quantum entanglement of neutrons :-)
It is a bit surprising that Celani's treatment works (when it does work) -
except for a Casimir - DCE contribution. Were it more reliable, it would be
good evidence for your theory of cavity QED effects, as opposed to nuclear
effects, but there could be a bit of both.
The Celani effect which looked so promising months ago - is now a huge
disappointment.
From: Roarty, Francis X
Jones,
On enrichment vs geometry do you think it is both that are needed
for robust operation? Can Ni Cu wire be leached out like Ni Al to form a
skeletal catalyst on the wire surface? Celani must be querying his vendor
for clues into what changed..
Fran
