Of course nanoparticles have unusual chemical and physical properties. The question is , Are these properties able to initiate a nuclear reaction? A huge ignorance exists about the difference between a nuclear reaction and a chemical change. You would do well to actually study some nuclear physics and apply this knowledge. If you check, you will discover the thing called the Coulomb barrier. The energy needed to get over this barrier is well known. This energy is huge and this is why nuclear reactions do not occur in and are not affected by chemical conditions. If you want to explain LENR using nano particles, you need to show how and why the chemical properties allow the Coulomb barrier to be overcome. Otherwise you are engaging in fantasy.
Ed Storms On Mar 22, 2014, at 6:45 PM, MarkI-ZeroPoint wrote: > A key statement in this paper is the very first sentence: > “Nanoparticles show many novel properties different from their bulk > materials.” > > This is why some here take issue with Ed’s relying only on “… the laws from > the past 100 years of chemistry/physics”. Those laws were developed with > bulk samples, not nanoparticles, so they may or may not apply to what’s > happening in LENR, and my $ is on the novel propertieswhich the referenced > paper is studying. This may also be the reason why the ‘gray-hairs’, or > grairs to borrow a theme from Star Trek, have not been able to figure this > out; they can’t think out of the bulk-matter-box. > > So keep up the informed and researched speculations, cuz that’s what we Vorts > are good at! J > > -Mark Iverson > > From: James Bowery [mailto:jabow...@gmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2014 4:17 PM > To: vortex-l > Subject: Re: [Vo]:2 Modes of the FPE > > These guys studied amorphous Pd nanoparticles: > > http://www.sci.unich.it/~dalessandro/letteratura_chimica_pdf/2003_0236.pdf > > Of course, in order to get a broad range of crack sizes, one must have a wide > range of sizes of amorphous Pd particles -- not just nanoparticles. > > Unfortunately, most of the search results for amorphous Pd out there return > various Pd-based alloys -- not pure Pd. > > > On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 6:02 PM, James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nanometer scale metallic glass particles would appear to be a natural result > of this method of metal nanoparticle synthesis: > > Inert-gas condensation is frequently used to make nanoparticles from metals > with low melting points. The metal is vaporized in a vacuum chamber and then > supercooled with an inert gas stream. The supercooled metal vapor condenses > into nanometer-size particles, which can be entrained in the inert gas stream > and deposited on a substrate or studied in situ. > > > On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 4:46 PM, a.ashfield <a.ashfi...@verizon.net> wrote: > James Bowery Sat, 22 Mar 2014 14:14:49 -0700 > > > It sounds like amorphous metals may be a fruitful avenue of research. > > Yes, I imagine abrasion would cause lots of surface cracks on an amorphous > metal - if it behaves like glass. > I had wondered in the past whether the surface preparation of the palladium > electrodes was one of the keys. > > Don't know how to develop cracks in a powdered material. I suppose that if > the material is not too ductile, just the > formation of the powder in a ball mill would do it. SO experimenting with > the ball mill might be one possibility. > >
