The SEI assay on page 45 of the report shows a PURE nickel particle with tubercles that have been unaffected by heat having survived 32 days of destructive temperatures up to 1400C.
Lithium 6 is a reaction ash. Lithium 7 is a "secret sauce" (SS) alkali metal additive, The older versions of Rossi's reactor most probably used potassium as the SS. On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 7:45 PM, Bob Higgins <[email protected]> wrote: > I am sure that there may be a Ni-X alloy that melts at higher temperature > than pure Ni. The field is wide open. There is just not enough good > concrete data or a theory to say what works and what doesn't. It appears > that Rossi has something that works, but this Lugano report provides, once > again, only obscure clues. The new hotCat powder could just as easily be a > catalyzed zirconium because we just don't know what is needed to make it > work. The directly measured input powder suggests that Li may play a role. > Looking back at the ICP-MS analysis of the ash from Rossi's original recipe > that Sven Kullander had done only recently came to my attention. There was > Li in this ash. So Li may well play a role all the way back to Rossi's > lower temperature recipe. In this case the Li would not be vapor - it is > part of an alloy with the carbonyl Ni particles which either occurred > during the reaction or in the prepared powder. I think a Li-Ni alloy on > the surface of the carbonyl Ni powder could be a part of the fuel and I am > looking for ways to dope the surface of my carbonyl Ni powder with Li in > ways that will not mess up the high surface area of the carbonyl particles. > > > I think as a community we should reproduce Rossi's earlier work before > heading off on the hotCat trail. Rossi only made the hotCat after having > long Edisonian experience with the lower temperature reaction. It is > incredibly valuable to have a working formula as a starting point to be > able to apply variations to the experiment and see the effects of the > changes. > > Bob Higgins > > On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Bob Cook <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Bob-- >> >> >> Thanks for that clarification about the melting of small Ni particles. >> Are there any compounds or alloys of Ni that would not melt or sinter below >> say 1100 C? Since Rossi says he does not use Ni nano particles the fuel >> may be something else containing Ni that could be exposed to the Li at 1000 >> C in some reliable configuration. >> >> For example the following abstract suggests some possible substrates that >> would hold the Ni at temperature. >> >> Composite nano particles of Ni-TiC and Ni-TiN were prepared by an active >> plasma-metal reaction method. The structure and morphology were evaluated >> by X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy observations. The >> morphology of the composite particles is dice-like or dumbbell-like, where >> the outer sides are metallic and the inner part of the rod (or dice)-like >> structure is TiC or TiN. The formation mechanism of the composite particles >> is considered by analogy to the VSL mechanism. *The thermal stability of >> the nanocomposite particles is vastly superior to that of the metal >> particle.* The excellent catalytic property of the Ni-TiN composite >> particle was confirmed when compared to the well-known Raney Ni particle >> and mixed particles of Ni and TiC. >> >> Note the increased thermal stability. >> >> Bob >> >>
