The clasaic 20+ years old paper about this is in the Journal of Chemical Education, onr of my favprite papers: http://voh.chem.ucla.edu/vohtar/fall02/classes/172/pdf/172rpint.pdf
Till now, as far I remember mercury has not played a role in LENR. I have once suggested it could be used to create active sites, by blowing hydrogen charged with mercury vapors over a metal by forming very local amalgam islands and these can be processed further. Just an idea, it was never tested. I have worked with mercury in electrolysis plants and once even as heat transfer agent in a cyclohexanol to cyclohexanone plant. Nasty stuff- to be avoided if possible. The evil stuff kills my pet metal aluminum. Peter On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > Poser of the Day: Why is the element mercury a dense liquid? > > - there have been prior (incomplete) explanations, but it turns out that > relativity is the culprit. > > The inner electrons of Hg become much heavier than normal electrons because > they are moving very near lightspeed - thus the higher density of the metal > is NOT due to the nucleus but instead is due to electrons. IOW - it is not > an issue of atomic weight, per se (mercury is denser than lead which is to > the right of it in the periodic table). > > This could have implications for LENR (to be explained in later post). > > http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201302742/abstract > > but this video makes it clearer (please ignore the 'bad hair' day) > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtnsHtYYKf0 > > As for one of the possible LENR connections to very heavy electrons - check > out Fig 12 and 13 > > http://www.lenr-canr.org/acrobat/CirilloDtransmutat.pdf > > Notice that two transmutation elements of remarkable high density turn up. > Osmium is the densest of all elements and Rhenium is very close. Both would > have an excess of very heavy electrons. > > However, this begs the question of cause and effect. > > > > > -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
