Page 53: it has been found that the fuel also contains rather high concentrations of C, Ca, Cl, Fe, Mg, Mn and these are not found in the ash.
this stuff might have turned into Li-6 On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 10:21 PM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > Table 1 Appendix 3 on page 42 of the Rossi report is the EDS analysis of > the > Fuel and Ash with natural abundance comparison. Look particularly at the > Li-6 counts in the ash. > > This Table should tell us what is happening in the reaction, if it can be > believed but so far, an important detail seems to be overlooked. There > seems > to be a lot of lithium 6 showing up in the ash - too much for the source to > be lithium 7. In other words, there is new lithium coming into the ash from > some other source, what is that source? > > Correction - all we can be sure of is that there is an EDS signal being > attributed to lithium-6 but it may be relic of incomplete software, since > all the signals are assigned by what is essentially a library of known > correlations. For instance, if there was a new isomer or species in this > reaction, not known previously, then the software would probably assign it > to the closest near-miss which could be Li-6. > > This analysis is open to interpretation of course, since it is based on > ratios and they state that various particles vary from place to place. But > in general, if we look at nickel in the ash and in fuel, the total counts > are nearly identical for nickel in both cases - but the isotopes have > shifted drastically. Now compare total nickel to total lithium. That ratio > has shot up 300% in favor of Li - and relative to counts between fuel and > ash and this is happening at the same time the isotope ratio is shifting. > But in general, when compared to nickel counts, net lithium counts has > tripled and most of that is probably in the form of "new" Li-6 (not coming > from Li-7) or else attributable a new species which the EDS is assigning as > Li-6. > > What is the source of this "new" Li-6 if it is not a relic of > instrumentation? > > The available suspects are aluminum, oxygen and hydrogen.... > > >
