At 1:14 AM 3/2/5, Keith Nagel wrote: >Hey Horace, > >You write: >>NOTE THAT THE DECIMAL POINT IN THE 19.6 CAL IS HARD TO READ IN THE SCAN. > >Oh come on, it's very clear and if the type face is confusing look >a few lines above for the same notation ( specific gravity 5.3 ).
Well, that depends on the quality of your monitor. > >I'm more inclined to think that the author wrote 19.6 calories and the >typesetter transcribed incorrectly as 19.6 Cals. x1000 less >energy would make this not as exciting. Not sure what you mean here. There was no "x 1000" notation used that I saw. It is strange that Cals. is capitalized though. You don't suppose this capitalization is intended to mean dietary calories, i.e. kilocalories? This seems inappropriate for a thermodynamic study. > >Otherwise, I see your point about the 100eV/atom. 1/10th an eV >sounds more reasonable for phase change, and could be absorbed during >the plating up process. I notice a number of references question the existence of actual Sb allotropes. The electrochmically deposited stuff may be just a mixture of Sb, SbCl3, SbO, and H or H2, etc., assuming not all the SBO+ is reduced, and some of the SbCl3 or some related and similar ion stays in solution. The H and SbO (or some similar compounds) would have to be physically separated in the amorphous black mixture, but a "rubbing" would bring them in contact and start the explosion. Regards, Horace Heffner
