Harry-- Its not so difficult if you suspect HD--you need to dissociate the HD molecule first and then do a mass spec test on the gas coming out of the system. Neither the H nor the D have a atomic weight (AW) of 3 and a charge of +2. H-3 would be the other most likely AW of 3 and it would be radioactive. It could be gettered from the gas stream with a hydrogen getter.
Hagelstein wished during the lecture 2 or 3 times that he could get funding to check for He-3--he commented on loosing funding once for the He-3 testing. He implied that the funding entities did not want him to find He-3. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: H Veeder To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 1:47 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:MIT Course Day 5 -- NiH Systems On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Bob Cook <[email protected]> wrote: I would be surprised that Focardi did not monitor He-3 and/or H-3, for the same reason Hagelstein indicated interest in He-3 production in the NiH experiments. Bob Hagelstein said that detecting a He-3 signal with a mass spectrometer is difficult because it might be confused with a HD signal depending on resolution of the spectrometer. Harry
