Hey Frank, The general idea was that when you dissolve a metal like Au in acid, the disaggregation of the metal becomes increasingly difficult as the particle size gets smaller and smaller, always stopping at a point before the individual atoms. He claimed to be able to process Au into the form of a pile of monoatoms, by means of a complex set of wet chemical operations. He also claimed that the monoatomic form existed in nature; in fact some of what would be considered mining waste was in fact Au in this form. Dave published a list of materials he tested and claimed had high concentrations of the material, animal brain tissue comes to mind as very high percentage.
You should get his UK patent GB2219995 for more information. He holds no US patent, but variations of GB2219995 appear in 15 other countries. Needless to say, that "getting" process can be facilitated by getting yourself a copy of this thing http://www.ipdiscover.com A sizeable religious cult grew up around Dave sometime in the early 90's, I'm sure some of our more -cough-faith-based-cough- list members will be happy to fill you in on that aspect of the story. Nick Reiter published some material on Vo. not long ago concerning his attempts at replicating the patent, his results were inconclusive. Others have claimed positive results, not on this forum. K. -----Original Message----- From: Grimer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 4:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Clusters At 02:26 pm 16-01-05 -0500, Keith wrote: <snip> > I would be remiss in not mentioning that old coyote David Hudson; he > was a big proponent of cluster based chemistry and claimed to have > some success ( although he sort of turns the notion on it's head > and claims ALL materials are cluster like and the rare form is > the monatom ) doing chemical operations to achieve the result. > If you can send me a copy of the Science article I'd be most > appreciative. > K. I'm interested to read what you say about "that old coyote David Hudson". Not only do I think he's generally correct but I would go further and say that all [What all? - Well, nearly all. ;-) ] materials are composed of a hierarchy of self similar clusters which is why, of course, they exhibit power law relations between various measures of strength and density for example. In fact I wrote an Internal Note on this at RRL in the early 60s. I'll have to get down to the job of OCRing it and putting it on the Beta-atmosphere Yahoo site. I believe that clusters are also relevant to the success Mizuno has with his sintered specimens (page 73-74 of Jed's translation). I think he was a bit of a chicken not to do the kamikaze and let the specimens blow up the lab. Politicians will never be convinced by calorimetry, but blow up a city block or two and they will sit up and take notice. 8-) Cheers Grimer
