Edmund Storms <stor...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > * Heat appears with D but not H. > > > This is not true. Heat has been measured when H is used. >
Only a few people have detected heat with Pd-H. Fleischmann found marginal heat, and you reported some. Let me put this way: heat comes a lot more readily with deuterium. Since the choice of D or H cannot affect the calorimetry, that indicates something real is happening. > * Heat only appears with high loading. > > > This is only true during electrolysis. > True, but again it is a control factor which cannot possibly influence the calorimetry, so it cannot be causing an instrument artifact. > A calorimeter is not affected by the source of energy. > Well, it is at least plausible that a calorimeter in which the temperature is measured in the electrolyte might be affected by the choice of heavy water or light water. I do not think there is any measurable difference, but there could be one. A gas calorimeter with the sample and temperature sensor surrounded by D or H gas will probably have a slightly different calibration curve for the two gases. In a calorimeter where you measure outside the cell, the cell components cannot affect performance. Except to a tiny extent, where the heat originates in different parts of the cell, especially the top or bottom, as shown by the Italians. - Jed
