This paper by Oganov is full of exaggerations. High pressure has been
used for years to create new materials and explore compounds that
cannot form under normal pressure. The authors of this paper give the
impression they discovered something new in violation of chemical
laws. Thus is not the case. They simply applied a well understood
method while using the accepted chemical laws. They only found a
behavior in a particular chemical system (NaCl) that did not behave as
they expected. Such surprises happen frequently in chemistry. This
surprise does not give permission to assume the chemical laws can be
easily violated. Unlike QM in physics, chemistry is an OLD science
that has been practiced under a huge range of conditions. The chemical
laws have, with very few exceptions, been found to apply. LENR occurs
in a chemical system, unlike hot fusion. This requires chemistry be
considered.
Ed Storms
On Dec 21, 2013, at 3:18 PM, Alan Fletcher wrote:
From: "H Veeder" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 6:21:41 PM
Subject: [Vo]:New Salt Compounds Challenge the Foun
To Oganov, impossible didn't mean something absolute. "The rules of
chemistry are not like mathematical theorems, which cannot be
broken," he says. "The rules of chemistry can be broken, because
impossible only means 'softly' impossible! You just need to find
conditions where these rules no longer hold."
Doesn't apply to physics and LENR, of course.
