Re: Demon aluminum

2004-11-13 Thread Grimer
I like that idea of lead - the archetypal heavy metal - being transmuted into Aluminium - the archetypal light metal and the most abundant metal in the earth's crust. It has a poetic ring about it. 8-) Not a very scientific observation, perhaps. But then, "There are more things.."

Re: Demon aluminum

2004-11-12 Thread Jones Beene
From: "Robin van Spaandonk" < > ...but, but...Pd106 + D -> 4*Al27 -7.8 MeV. > This is just straight mass -> mass, without regard to charge. > > Where does the missing 8 MeV come from? Easy! ... at first glance, the court jester would say... Perhaps the "missing" ~8 MeV comes from interleaved ma

Re: Demon aluminum

2004-11-12 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:37:59 -0800: Hi, [snip] >Easy !! > >...says the village idiot - just allow the excess energy to >be converted into mass via Dirac reciprocal space, sending >to Dirac the 4 high energy betas in exchange for 4 >positrons, which take up residen

Demon aluminum

2004-11-12 Thread Jones Beene
Ref the recent Paper: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/SzpakSprecursors.pdf "Fig. 6. Analysis of the boulder-like segment showed the presence of a single element, Aluminum... > Why would aluminum be favored? And how could the nuclear > events leading up to this substantial amount of aluminum > ha