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- From: ames!FNALD.FNAL.GOV!DROEGE
- Subject: Jack Daniels and interesting life.
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- Sender: scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Scott Hazen Mueller)
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- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 21:25:49 GMT
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- dale bass says: "By the way, wild hunches seem to make life interesting."
-
- Bob Daniels asks about the Jack Daniels. From TIME May 8, 1989:
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- "We came down from the hike," recalls Pons, "and then we stood around the
- table in my kitchen, had a couple of Jack Daniel's and started drawing
- pictures."
-
- Sorry that was Bob Pendleton that asked.
-
- If I was forced to do the Natoya type of calorimeter demo, I would be very
- careful to match the two cells. I would likely try a Pt - Pt cell for the
- control, and adjuct the electrolyte and the anode and cathode areas so that
- the control cell had about the same voltage drop at the test cell current.
- The problem is that you can't afford the Pt wire to make a Mills cell copy
- with Pt - Pt electrodes.
-
- Then I would adjust the reference cell *** power input *** until the reference
- cell was at the same *** temperature *** as the cell under test. Not very
- easy to do for a *** human *** but a well trained machine can do a pretty
- good job.
-
- Even this has a lot of problems unless you are willing to invest in all that
- Pt wire. That is because with smaller electrodes, the heat is not liberated
- in exactly the same place.
-
- Jed Rothwell will say that the hotter cell clearly indicates more power. Well
- maybe it does, and maybe it doesn't. At least this scheme gets away from the
- 1.48*I correction, or greatly reduces the correction required depending on
- how close the cell current is matched when the system temperatures match.
- I would use one of my TED devices to sense the difference in cell temperature.
-
- The more I think about it, the more I see problems with the Natoya demo. I
- think it is just meaningless.
-
- Tom Droege
-