I have made this at my home lab. There was no magnetic particles in the graphite at first.
After the microwave heating I got magnetic particles. I tested it for iron in a simple wet chemical test and it show it contain iron. But then I extracted the untreated graphite in HCl and made same test. This show the natural graphite was contain iron from the start. The heat must have making the carbon reduce the iron from an unmagnetic state to a ferromagnetic sate. I have tested additional two different samples of natural graphite sold as "pure" and in both I find iron. On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 20:29:40 -0700, Eric Walker wrote: On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Brad Lowe wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms411WCBEZk [2] Is he creating "magnetic" carbon, or is it fusion? http://www.materialstoday.com/carbon/news/magnetic-carbon/ [3] The article talks about how proton irradiation can make carbon magnetic. Even if there was proton irradiation and it did not result in fusion (proton capture), is still interesting that there would be a energetic protons. Eric Links: ------ [1] mailto:ecatbuil...@gmail.com [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms411WCBEZk [3] http://www.materialstoday.com/carbon/news/magnetic-carbon/
