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- From: blue@nscl01.nscl.msu.edu
- Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
- Subject: Loading ? and Contaminants ?
- Message-ID: <0096359F.3DD77140.6436@dancer.nscl.msu.edu>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 15:43:20 GMT
- Article-I.D.: dancer.0096359F.3DD77140.6436
- Sender: scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Scott Hazen Mueller)
- Reply-To: blue@nscl01.nscl.msu.edu
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- Jed Rothwell has informed me that cold fusion is certain to occur at
- deuteron-to-palladium ratios of 0.9 and above, but I haven't ever seen
- a clear explaination as to how these high loadings are measured. Tom
- Droege's puzzlement over this issue would seem to indicate that he too
- would like to know where the numbers come from to support Jed's assertions.
-
- My second question has to do with the recent abstract for the paper by
- Chien C-C, Hodko D., Minevski Z, and Bockris J O'M, J. Electroanal. Chem.
- 338(1992)186. After asserting that they had electrodes "producing
- massive quantities of tritium and helium" they say that in 22 days they
- produced 1E15 tritium atoms and somewhere between 4He 0.4 and 167E9
- helium atoms. They also say this was done in a "fairly well closed
- cell" but that they ended with a 10% contamination of H2O in thier
- electrolyte. Can those of you who understand this sort of thing and/or
- who may have read the full paper explain to me who any can claim trace
- ammounts of tritium and helium had to be produced within a cell at the
- same time they admit that enough light water was getting in to contaminate
- the electrolyte at the 10% level?
-
- Dick Blue
- NSCL @ MSU
-