Jones Beene wrote:
This kind of thing could be accomplished using a precision calorimeter, and it is a bit surprising that it has not been attempted, such as in the MOAC ...
I think this would be orders of magnitude below the sensitivity of the MOAC. You would need a micro-calorimeter, such as the one they use at Tsinghua U., which they claim can measure the heat from a cricket chirping. Space-based Michael calorimeters can measure the heat from a single fast moving nuclear particle impact.
I do not think the sample holder of a conventional micro-calorimeter could accommodate something like this. The schematics of the ones I have seen have very small capacity.
- Jed
