I was thinking about the Rossi type reactor and NiH system, but the principle is the same for the Palladium system.
The hydrogen (H) is packed to form a hydride before the heat is applied and it will penetrant only a short way into the bulk of the micro-particle. When the particle is heated, charge separation will occur, the electron will be stripped from some of the H, and that hydrogen will be ionized leaving these protons in the bulk. Then the high negative charge at the surface will draw the protons outward toward the surface. Remember that the proton will be attracted to the positive nucleus as happens in cooper pair production because of the negative permeability coefficient of the particle’s surface charge ( the Shukla-Eliasson effect). Cheers: Axil On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:15 AM, Kevin O'Malley <kevmol...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > In the balloon analogy, all the balloons will be drawn to the surface just > under the top of the particle’s bulk. > ***How is that? In the balloon analogy, the tinker toys represent the > palladium lattice and the balloons represent Hydrogen atoms. There hasn't > been indication that hydrogen atoms migrate to the surface, has there? >
