On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 2:39 AM, Robert Lynn <[email protected] > wrote:
> This reactor is mostly nickel droplets in lithium gas (the hydrogen will > all diffuse away through porous sintered alumina rapidly at such high > temperatures, but perhaps is useful to create reducing conditions > initially). > The report tells us the group saw sintered alumna. We do not know what is used on the inside of the device. My guess: not sintered alumina, for this reason. Here is another possibility: http://www.azom.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=3560 Note that the form of alumina in this case is "a nearly perfect oxygen and hydrogen barrier". I do not know what its tensile, thermodynamic and chemical properties are, except that it is probably refractory. Eric
