On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Bob Higgins <[email protected]> wrote:
> I meant exactly what I said. Do I have justification? Yes. The first is > that Parkhomov's experiment appears to have worked and I don't' think he > made a specific effort to match the Lugano powder size. > Yes the powder does not work. > Second, the Ni is dissolving into the Li-Al-H liquid metal at that > temperature, removing the fine features of the carbonyl Ni. > Rossi says that his nickel is 5 9s pure. > If the small features of the Ni are not complicit in the LENR, then it is > not clear that size of the starting particles mean very much. > Where is reference to this? > The Ni particles get reduced of their oxide easily by 300C and they begin > sintering into a porous web long before the reaction begins. Thus, the > starting particle size bears fairly little relation to the powder > configuration at 900C and above. > > There is no oxide. Rossi says that his nickel is 5 9s pure.
