Good start on a list. It is clear that the two isotopes are so very
different in nuclear properties that they should be considered different
elements- yet the chemical properties are identical or similar - so the
profound nuclear differences are masked by chemical similarity.

 

To add: one nucleus is Bosonic, the other is Fermionic. Boson statistics are
probably the biggest difference of all.

 

Near-field charge of the nuclei is another.

 

NMR and magnetic susceptibility you mention.

 

From: David Roberson 

 

Jones, since you mention how different protium and deuterium are perhaps it
is an excellent time to discuss the differences:

Obviously the mass of deuterium is approximately double that of protium.  At
the same temperature protium would be moving between collisions at around
the square root of two times faster.

Deuterium is physically larger than protium but the size difference may not
make a difference in the chemical behavior directly.  Here I am referring to
the nucleus and not a neutral atom.

The magnetic properties of the two should be different but I leave that
decision up to others with an opportunity to look into the issue.  The spin
differences must be important.

The behavior of each of these isotopes to electromagnetic radiation would be
quite different due to the large mass to charge ratio variation.

Deuterium can combine with another of its same isotope to form a stable
nucleus whereas protium generally does not.  This may be the main physical
difference affecting LENR behavior.

Deuterium can supply a neutron to any nuclear reaction that protium can not.
The proton and neutron can be separated and individually expelled under
certain conditions.

I suspect that protium diffuses more rapidly than deuterium through metals
due to its lower mass and perhaps smaller physical size.

I have barely breached the list of differences and I am confident that
others can correct and improve this beginning.   Take a moment to add
factors that you may have knowledge of that clearly pertain to behavior
separating these isotopes.




 

In his Arata replication, Ahern found that an alloy of mostly nickel with
less than 10% Pd takes up more hydrogen than Pd alone. 

 

But he also found that hydrogen concentration did NOT correlate to excess
energy. However, this was with protium, not deuterium. The highest absorber
was not the most active and a low absorber was actually superior. There is a
known correlation of excess heat to deuterium concentration in Pd-D
experiments, which is completely absent in Ni-H. 

 

This is yet another reason, one of many - why consideration of all the
evidence, giving no preference to Pd-D, points to many different routes to
gain in LENR. 

 

In many ways, protium and deuterium as so extremely different in physical
properties (especially nuclear properties) that they should be considered to
be different elements instead of isotopes of the same element.

 

 

 

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