Because Lithium is a non zero spin nucleus, it cannot transmute. The additional Li6 seen in the ash must therefore be new lithium produced directly from hydrogen.
On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 8:52 PM, Axil Axil <janap...@gmail.com> wrote: > From the test report as follows: > > *The Lithium content in the fuel is found to have the natural composition, > i.e. 6Li 7 % and 7Li 93 %. However at the end of the run a depletion of 7Li > in the ash was revealed by both the SIMS and the ICP-MS methods. In the > SIMS analysis the 7Li content was only 7.9% and in the ICP-MS analysis it > was 42.5 %. This result is remarkable since it shows that the burning > process in E-Cat indeed changes the fuel at the nuclear level, i.e. nuclear > reactions have taken place. It is notable, but maybe only a coincidence, > that also in Astrophysics a 7Li depletion is observed * > > *The Lithium problem* > > *http://phys.org/news/2014-08-big-conditions-lithium-problem.html* > <http://phys.org/news/2014-08-big-conditions-lithium-problem.html> > > > > *Measurement at Big Bang conditions confirms lithium problem* > > > > > *The field of astrophysics has a stubborn problem and it's called lithium. > The quantities of lithium predicted to have resulted from the Big Bang are > not actually present in stars. * > * Lithium, aside from hydrogen and helium, is one of the three elements > that are created before the first stars form. These three elements were – > according to the theory – already created early on, through what is known > as "primordial nucleosynthesis." That means that when the universe was only > a few minutes old, neutrons and protons merged to form the nuclei of the > these elements.* > > *In the Italian **underground laboratory* > <http://phys.org/tags/underground+laboratory/> > *, the scientists fired helium nuclei at heavy hydrogen (known as > deuterium) in order to reach energies similar to those just after the Big > Bang. The idea was to measure how much lithium forms under similar > conditions to those during the early stages of the universe. The result of > the experiment: the data confirmed the theoretical predictions, which are > incompatible with the observed lithium concentrations found in the > universe.* > * "For the first time, we could actually study the lithium-6 production in > one part of the Big Bang energy range with our experiment," explains Daniel > Bemmerer. Lithium-6 (three neutrons, three protons) is one of the element's > two stable isotopes. The formation of lithium-7, which possesses an > additional neutron, was studied in 2006 by Bemmerer at LUNA.* > > > > *With these new results, what is known as the "lithium problem" remains a > hard nut to crack: on the one hand, now all laboratory results of the > astrophysicists suggest that the theory of primordial nucleosynthesis is > correct. On the other hand, many observations of astronomers show that the > oldest stars in our Milky Way contain only half as much lithium-7 as > predicted. Sensational reports by Swedish researchers, who discovered > clearly more lithium-6 in such stars than predicted, must also likely be > checked again based on the new LUNA data. Bemmerer says, "Should unusual > lithium concentrations be observed in the future, we know, thanks to the > new measurements, that it cannot be due to the primordial nucleosynthesis."* > > > > >
