And yet, particle 1 which showed Ni62 transmutation also shower that the tubercle nano-surface was still in place after days of 1400C operation. Any ideas?
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Bob Higgins <[email protected]> wrote: > As someone who has first hand experience working with micro-scale carbonyl > Ni powder, and treating these powders in a thermochemical reactor, I can > tell you that what you are saying about the nickel particles is 100% > wrong. Even these 4-10 micron scale nickel particles will sinter into a > porous mass by heating at 500-700C. Ni melts at 1455C and the nano-scale > features will all melt at about half of this temperature - the nanoscale > features will ball-up onto the micro-scale nickel particle to which the > feature may be attached. Any nanopowder of Ni present is melted before > 800C and becomes a larger particle - and then condenses. And Rossi > specifically says he does not use nickel nanopowder anyway. The same is > true for other free nanoparticles. By the time the IH reactor is operating > above 1000C, there are no nickel nanoparticles or nano-features of any kind > left - they are all melted into larger agglomerations. > > I don't know what your experience is with, but it is not with nickel > powder. Alumina does not store hydrogen in any significant measure. > > > On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Bob Cook <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Eric >> >> The Li may still be in a vapor form and the Ni in a nano size solid state >> form, both nano particles and Li atoms circulating as a hot mixed substance >> in the reactor. The Li reacts one atom at a time with the Ni lattice to >> form new species. The temperature is practically uniform because the nano >> particles quickly take on the temperature of the Li vapor or individual >> atoms. As has been suggested the Li evaporates from the alumina to feed >> the reactor and provide the necessary nuclear reactant with the Ni >> isotopes--with the exception of Ni-62 which does not react. >> >> I suggest that the Ni is in a particulate configuration since I do not >> believe the temperatures are sufficient to cause vaporization or >> degradation of the Ni nano particles. H may also circulate, but is of no >> consequence--or maybe it is if the alumina is really a hydrate to begin >> with by design. >> >> Bob Cook >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> *From:* Eric Walker <[email protected]> >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Sent:* Saturday, October 18, 2014 8:23 AM >> *Subject:* Re: [Vo]: Gettering in the Lugano IH reactor >> >> On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Bob Higgins <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Once the Li is a thin alloy film on the Ni particle surfaces which are >>> catalyzed to produce a LENR reaction, the Li may then be a participant in >>> the LENR in condensed matter form as opposed to being a participant in >>> vapor phase form. >>> >> >> I think you've hit upon an important question that has come up recently >> -- is a condensed matter phase needed in some form to get LENR to work? If >> not, there will have been a lot of theorizing over the years for naught. >> My working assumption now is that there is no such need, and LENR will work >> in pure gas phase systems as well, although I do think that an explanation >> should also account for LENR working in a solid state system. >> >> Eric >> >> >
