>From PhysOrg.com. The first having to do with catalysts...
"...researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have created bilayered nanocrystals of a metal-metal oxide that are the first to feature multiple catalytic sites on nanocrystal interfaces. These multiple catalytic sites allow for multiple, sequential catalytic reactions to be carried out selectively and in tandem." "Catalysts - substances that speed up the rates of chemical reactions without themselves being chemically changed - are used to initiate virtually every industrial manufacturing process that involves chemistry. Metal catalysts have been the traditional workhorses..." Has Rossi (and perhaps BLP and LENR) found a catalyst to speed up or manipulate nuclear processes? If that is the case, then it is just the tip of the iceburg as catalysts are what make the chemical industry go round! And this is much bigger than even any of us has imagined... "It is well-known that catalysis can be modulated by using different metal oxide supports, or metal oxide supports with different crystal surfaces," Yang says. "Precise selection and control of metal-metal oxide interfaces in nanocrystals should therefore yield better activity and selectivity for a desired reaction." Are the 'nuclear catalysts' the way that the branching ratios are manipulated to be other than what is known from hot-fusion? And the Second article involves how molecules with a very large rotational component transfer that energy to other forms... "High-energy molecules play a major role in the chemistry of combustion, plasmas and the atmosphere. Scientists have been able to generate and investigate molecules with large amounts of vibrational, electronic or translational energy, but methods for producing and studying molecules with large amounts of rotational energy have remained elusive. In the April 5 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, University of Maryland Chemistry Professor Amy S. Mullin and her research team introduce a new instrument that can both impart extremely large amounts of rotational energy to molecules and study how they subsequently transfer their energy to other molecules..." Hasn't one of the key questions been how the energy from the LENR reactions is transferred into the lattice (to manifest as heat) and not into hi-energy particles (gammas and neutrons), to manifest in dead graduate students??? 0.5 * :-) -Mark -----Original Message----- From: mix...@bigpond.com [mailto:mix...@bigpond.com] Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 8:14 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: Fwd: [Vo]:Rossi E-Cat CATALYST Speculation Thread In reply to Stephen A. Lawrence's message of Mon, 11 Apr 2011 21:30:42 -0400: Hi, [snip] > > >On 04/11/2011 08:50 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: >> noone noone <thesteornpa...@yahoo.com >> <mailto:thesteornpa...@yahoo.com>> wrote: >> >> ROSSI ENRICHES HIS NICKEL! >> >> >> Wow! That is a revelation. He _has_ learned from Piantelli. >> >> It is surprising he can do this for 10% of the cost of nickel. > >It's also surprising that the nickel analyzed in Sweden didn't show any >signs of enrichment. > >So, have we decided that Rossi handed them a phony sample, or is the >enrichment just so slight that it doesn't show up? > >Or is there really no enrichment taking place? As Rossi gets backed into a corner, he gives the answers that will keep people happy while he continues his project. ;) Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
