In the noble gas cluster formation process, any combination of noble gas elements is possible. Helium could well be affixed inside various noble gas clusters types. In my opinion understanding noble gas cluster formation is key to understanding the Papp reaction.
Cheers: Axil On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 2:56 PM, James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Axil Axil <janap...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> In the John Rohner cycle, he first excites the noble gases with a radio >> frequency generator before the piston starts to move into compression. >> Xenon is easy to excite because it binding energy is low: many orders of >> magnitude lower than H2. >> > If so, then it would tend to move the xenon toward the center allowing the > non-ionized helium to diffuse outward (which it will tend to do quickly due > to its lower molecular weight). > > There would, of course, be a kind of "ionic wind" dragging the helium > along with the xenon ions but it isn't clear to what the distribution of > helium atoms would be although it is clear that the walls of the container > would be protected from ions (remembering that the helium atoms aren't > ionized). > >
