> On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:37:36 -0700 > jimlux <jim...@earthlink.net> wrote: > >> J. Forster wrote: >> > If you decide to go the zinc/acid route (a very bad idea, IMO) you >> will >> > need a compressor. I'd not want anything to do with that! I like >> living. >> > >> > A Lecture Bottle is the way to go. >> >> >> Why would you compress it.. I imagine that you need micrograms of H2.. >> (it *is* almost a vacuum, right?)..
You need a pressure differential across the Palladium plug used to control the H2 flow into the MASER. At a first glance the 1 Atm seems too low, but might be enough if you heat the Palladium hot enough. It's an engineering tradeoff and I've not done the analysis. Comment: When contemplating something like making a MASER, you want to buy things off the shelf, if at all possible. I'd buy a Lecture Bottle of H2 and a regulator for $100 or so and move on to the next step. It's not an exercise in building a working unit on a desert island from sand and coconut shells. >> And yes, zinc/acid probably is a bad way... How about electrolysis of >> distilled water. (I know you're not going to think that sodium/H2O is a >> good approach, eh?) > > In one of the papers i've read (which i'm currently unable to find), > they used a electrolysis of KOH with a purifier. I don't know about > KOH but NaOH is quite easy to get in large quantities. The only prob > with it might be to keep it from taking too much water in. > >> (on the other hand a lecture bottle is cheap and easy.. but this *is* >> time-nuts, where sometimes we like advocating the "hard way"... so what >> about some exotic nuclear reaction that throws off protons...I hesitate >> to suggest fissioning He, if it's even possible...) > > Single protons wont do it. The hyperfine line a H maser taps into is > comes from the difference of the orientation of spins between the proton > and its electron. And if i got it correctyl, you also have to make sure > that the atom isn't excited in any way. Which isn't exactly easy if you > start with a single proton and let it recombine with an electron. > > > Attila Kinali > > -- > Why does it take years to find the answers to > the questions one should have asked long ago? _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.