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- From: blue@nscl01.nscl.msu.edu
- Subject: What about Yamaguchi?
- Message-ID: <00963CB8.75774C40.8966@dancer.nscl.msu.edu>
- Sender: scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Scott Hazen Mueller)
- Reply-To: blue@nscl01.nscl.msu.edu
- Organization: Sci.physics.fusion/Mail Gateway
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:07:25 GMT
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- I feel the need for a refresher course on what Yamaguchi's experiment
- actually involves. In addition to a Pd sandwich with an oxide and a
- gold side with Pd:D in between there seems to be a rather high ion current
- applied "perpendicular" to the plane of this sandwich. Is this in
- vacuum or in liquid? Either way I don't see anything too surprising
- about an observation that this thing comes apart. Next how is the
- energy balance determined? I would also like to know what kind of
- material properties the oxide layer is likely to have. I know that
- wierd things happen when you form oxide layers on alumnimum, for
- example, relating to large electric field gradients on thin layers.
- Does an oxide layer on Pd have similar properties? Next some elementary
- chemistry would seem to indicate that having an oxide in close contact
- with a layer loaded with deuterium might lead to an explosive situation.
- I think that when we have an experiment that is worth $8-billion in
- paper profits it is worthy of a good going over. Does anyone know
- some of the details about Yamaguchi's experiments, or is this one of
- those deals that is kept shrouded in industrial secrecy except when
- there is some selfserving PR work to be done?
-
- Dick Blue
- NSCL @ MSU
-