On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote:
Why is the Ni62 nearly pure? The reaction was stopped for reasons which were > pre-planned, and not related to a depletion of reactants. They made this > clear. > There was an earlier thread about the possibility of "burn-in," where early in the test the nickel isotopes incremented up to 62Ni and then reached a barrier, after which reactions with nickel were not energetically favorable. Presumably this would be two-body reactions, incrementing one isotope each step. Depending upon how fast such burn occurred, an implication would seem to be that the nickel was not the entire source of heat. Eric
