Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote:
> Apparently the mass spec and quadrupole are outside the experiment, and > could not have been contributory. > When they took those photos I think the mass spec & quadrupole were sitting there, not hooked into the experiment yet. I saw the quadrupole gadget years ago when I was there. Months ago, they did the experiment by doing glow discharge with rarefied gas, then filling the cell with a lot more gas. The gas would stay there for the entire test. I think after the test they would sometimes run a sample through a mass spectrometer. They occasionally saw some anomalous heat during the initial glow discharge phase, presumably when some nanoparticles were already formed. I have not seen new slides and I was not there for the lecture, but my impression is they have now set up the mass spectrometer in a loop, where the gas passes through the spectrometer into the cell, out again and around and around. Mizuno did not send me slides, I suppose because Yoshino has them. I guess he just got home. It takes a long time. If I get slides I will upload them toot sweet as they (don't) say in Gay Paree. - Jed
