from wikipedia: Nickel is a naturally magnetostrictive material, meaning that in the presence of a magnetic field, the material undergoes a small change in length.[41] In the case of nickel, this change in length is negative (contraction of the material), which is known as negative magnetostriction and is on the order of 50 ppm
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 23:27, Axil Axil <janap...@gmail.com> wrote: > I believe that when Rossi talks about using only milligrams of catalyst, he > is not making a mistake. The patent contains “a patent of interest section” > where a number of these patents address ion production, acceleration, and > their direction. > > > > I believe that Rossi is ionizing NiO particles and firing them into the > reaction vessel at high speed with the intent of imbedding them into the > wall of the stainless steel (SS) vessel. > > > > If the exciter is magnetic and/or electrostatic force, the only place that > these forces will have effect is on or very near the surface of the SS > reaction chamber. > > > > The big Cat-E (10 KW) was said to contain only a gram of catalyst. That is > too small a volume of catalyst to fill a 1000 cm3 vessel. However, it is > sufficient to coat its walls with a rough thick surface layer. A Cat-E > totally filled with nanopowder with all of it producing heat cannot pass > that internal heat to the wall of the SS vessel very well. > > > > Tight nanoparticle packing needed for efficient heat transfer would work > against efficient hydrogen flow and vice versa. > > > > On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 3:09 PM, .:.gotjosh <ene...@begreen.nu> wrote: >> >> Again, I think you are really onto something here also! >> did you read my comment from this morning? >> (http://www.journal-of-nuclear-physics.com/?p=473&cpage=3#comment-33413) >> >> I really want to know where the elements of the electric resistive >> heater are mounted. Does anyone have definitive info about that? >> Could they even be in contact with the Nickel Powder/matrix? >> >> >> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 19:48, Axil Axil <janap...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > An independent Cat-E exciter is required exclusive of heat. >> > >> > One of the assertions coming from Rossi is that the heat-output >> > reaction >> > can be started/stopped at the flick of a switch. If so, then there needs >> > to >> > be separate "exciter" (so to speak) exclusive of heat. >> > >> > >> > >> > An alterative exciter that controls the Rossi reaction which is not heat >> > must be electrostatic and/or magnetic excitation of the walls of the >> > stainless steel reaction chamber generated by the inductive heater. >> > >> > >> > >> > Heat alone cannot be the factor that controls the reaction because the >> > heat >> > from nuclear processes would interfere (add to) with the application of >> > control heat and result in a runaway meltdown. >> > >> > >> > >