From: Edmund Storms
Bob, the entire particle of Ni is not loaded, which is impossible. Only the treated surface is loaded where the cracks are formed. The surface is not pure not Ni and the crystal structure shows. This is exactly why a special nickel alloy, and not pure nickel, could be used by Rossi: one that sucks up hydrogen like a sponge - to wit: LaNi5. This is an amazing alloy which we have mentioned before. LaNi5 is well-studied for hydrogen storage, used by NASA for years - loads in seconds to 100% (1:1 Ratio) resulting in greater hydrogen density than liquid hydrogen, and there is evidence Rossi knows of it (La lines in the spectroscopy of the original patent filing, which are now removed). This old paper is worth a read. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/j100476a006 100% of lanthanum is high spin with NMR properties - which would fit in with the anomalous magnetism speculation. LaNi5 employs chemisorption - and actually absorbs atomic hydrogen into the metal structure. The heat of adsorption is calculated to be 30.3 kJ/mol which is higher than expected and could relate to LENR. Jones
