One further possibility for the magnetic anomaly.
It's been mentioned earlier that in metallurgy, there is a unique metallic form of nickel-hydride which is stable all the way to the melting point of hydrogen. There is a Wiki article which explains some of this. Hydrogen essentially becomes metallic in this alloy, which is precisely one part hydrogen to fourteen parts Ni, where H becomes a true alloy (hydrogen can be no more than .002% of this alloy by mass). The structure is FCC with the monatomic hydrogen nested in the middle of 14 nickel atoms. It is extraordinarily stable but not often encountered, since extra hydrogen will destroy the FCC crystal by embrittlement and the alloy is difficult to produce. The $64 question relates to how fractional hydrogen f/H, which already can have a magnetic field which is hundreds of times more intense than the 12T field of monatomic hydrogen, would alter the ferromagnetic properties of this NiH alloy, even in the low percentage. The Curie temperature could be raised for instance and the coercivity greatly enhanced. Note that the neodymium magnets, the powerful ones which we are all familiar with, are mostly iron by far, and in fact the ratio is 14:2 (Fe14 Nd2B) which has a tetragonal crystalline structure not FCC. The point being that coercivity in a ferromagnetic material like iron or nickel can be "controlled" by smaller amount of another element. Essentially NiH in the proper ratio of 14:1 when the hydrogen is fraction could produce a unique magnet structure - and could exist as a permanent magnet at high temperature, and one wonders if not at high temperature ONLY. . since there is the possibility that the aligned field only develops under combined thermal agitation and EM input (from Rossi's resistive coils or DGTs pulsed discharge). From: David Roberson Excellent point Eric. Rossi appears to operate his ECAT at much higher temperatures than this while DGT was very close to it. I wonder if there is significance to the difference? -----Original Message----- From: Eric Walker Also note that the Curie temp for nickel is 357 C. I believe above that temperature nickel would lose any permanent magnetism. So if there is a strong field above that temperature, I assume it would be induced from something going on with the reaction. David Roberson wrote: Stack a zillion of these guys up and you might get a significant field at a distance. My take on this is that the size of the field needs to be clarified as well as the magnitude if it is real. It is too early for us to determine exactly what is occurring. Dave
