Jed
They would have to had a magnetic shield around the mass spec to keep the
magnetic field out of the reactor. Keep in mind that the Mass Spectrometer
uses a small sample of a gas and ionized it to create a charged atom that is
captured in the process and is eliminated from the gas inventory. If the
process is continuous, a significant amount of gas may be lost in this process
over time. A mass accounting is warranted.
What is the "quadrupole" outside the experiment that you refer to. Is it part
of the mass spectrometer?
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: Jed Rothwell
To: vortex-l@eskimo.com
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: [Vo]:More on the Mizuno presentation
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
