The entire publication (from the UK) has very interesting articles—behind an expensive pay wall—not very accessible to low budget LENR folks.
Many of the articles pertain to cryogenic material processing, which probably is applicable to producing nano-sized grains of pure crystal lattice. I agree with Jones and further note that the zones between grains may fill with a BEC of D with a metallic D phase of high density. X-ray diffraction examination of the resulting Ti/D alloy should tell the tale. The pure nature of the two phases should allow accurate creation of dipole and quadrupole resonances to induce desired and controlled nuclear reactions using ambient magnetic fields and well controlled /directed EM radiation. Helium may result. J-M is probably at the forefront of the nano material development in the UK. However, other places may be up-to-speed as well. Bob Cook From: JonesBeene<mailto:jone...@pacbell.net> Sent: Monday, September 3, 2018 2:05 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com<mailto:vortex-l@eskimo.com> Subject: [Vo]:The easy way to make metallic hydrogen (deuterium) Don’t take this too seriously – even if the numbers are entirely factual. Here is a paper from a respected journal https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10426914.2016.1244833?journalCode=lmmp20 The abstract says: The sintering densification behaviors of titanium hydride are investigated at different compaction pressures, compared with pure titanium. The results show that the shrinkage and densification of the TiH2 specimens after sintering are obviously higher than those of pure Ti. I find it absolutely remarkable that TiH2 can be made significantly denser than pure Ti metal by simple mechanical pressure after sintering. The implication is that the protons/deuterons are lodged into an inner orbital in compressed titanium hydrides but are out in valence shells when uncompressed. This kind of densification does NOT happen with any other hydride (which I can find in a google search but if you know of one, please mention it). Densification does not happen with palladium although Pd only swells moderately at high loading (meaning it becomes less dense when loaded) It is also curious that liquid deuterium is significantly more than twice as dense as liquid hydrogen. Boson packing effects? Can Boson statistics influence density at ambient conditions, aa well? Admittedly there is no unanimity in the published values below. According to Wiki, the uncompressed hydride TiD2 has a density of 3.9 g/cm3 and liquid deuterium has a density of .171 g/cm3 near absolute zero or .18 if solid. This is more than double that of liquid hydrogen which is .07 g/cm3. The pure Ti metal has a density of 4.5 g/cm3, Titanium hydride which has not been compressed contains 4% hydrogen by mass, but as a result the hydride becomes reduced in density by 13%. That assumes no pressurization. Four percent of titanium’s normal density would be .18 g/cm. Yet - when the deuterium is completely absorbed into the atom via pressurization, the density of the hydride is at least 4.6 g/cm3 (in order to be denser than pure metal). See where this is going? Yup, when you connect the dots, it means essentially that when deuterium has been loaded into titanium metal to give TiD2 and then compressed, the measured density of only the deuterium (ignore the titanium for now) is already HIGHER than the value for solid deuterium alone! In short, D2 when loaded into Ti and compressed, effectively becomes metallic (or at least solid), even at room temperature. If the combined metallic deuterium were not “alloyed” to the matrix, it would probably be superconductive at ambient. Too bad. Awesome! … to comprehend the further implications of this. And overlooked. The Journal where this appeared does not cater to LENR and therefore none of this new information on compressed TiD2 appears to have been known to LENR researchers until recently. Jones
