Axil, have you looked at the SEM images (courtesy of Ed Storms) of the Ni from the MFMP reactor?
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B5Pc25a4cOM2fllFSWpFNVJoUlIxbERhRTE2M2FTY0s3TU9sZ2FsVG5wMGdodlE2ZW1JMVE&usp=sharing On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 4:02 PM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Bob Higgins <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Axil, what you are describing as "proper sized" and "tubercles" are >> applicable to Rossi's low temperature catalyzed Ni fuel. >> > > For a temperature of 1200C, the proper size is about 2 microns give or > take. > > >> This is not what was used in the HotCat or Parkhomov experiment. SEM >> images of the Ni core from the MFMP experiment (Bang!) show that early on >> the Ni particles are completely reduced of oxide by the evolved hydrogen >> and by 300C, they are sintering into a sparse 3D web like structure. >> > > Page 43 figure 2 of the Lagano report shows a particle with tubercles. The > other has been melted. > > >> Then above 900C, the released Li-Al alloy molten metal is wetting to the >> Ni and actually dissolving the fine features while completely coating the >> Ni. This coating is a Li-Al-Ni-H alloy and this is likely a new modality >> of LENR with Ni inside liquid metal and with the hydrogen ions in the >> liquid metal. >> > > > There is no experimental proof of this statement. > > >> The iron in the Lugano experiment is a known catalyst to make LiAlH4 >> decompose at a lower temperature. >> > > true > > > >> That is probably why the Lugano HotCat worked better at a lower >> temperature than Parkhomov (the Lugano temperatures were significantly off, >> with the 1410C measurement probably ~1130C; I can send you the paper if you >> want). This also decreases that calculated COP by at least 20% which is >> getting closer to Parkhomov. >> > > Key to my point, Lugano demo worked better than the Parkhomov system > because Rossi's nickel particles are LENR reaction proven. Parkhomov nickel > did not work as stated by Parkhomov's own experimental analysis. > > > >> >> Lugano and Parkhomov are commensurate. Rossi's low temperature eCat >> catalyzed fuel is different and the reaction there is gas phase. >> >> Rossi's nickel powder looks the same over all his applications. >> >
