On 2021-12-02 19:35, Jones Beene wrote:
This doesn't give us much of a clue about what could be the cause of excess hydrogen... unless Holmlid's muons are carrying away heat somehow while splitting off protons in the process.
The authors suggested that thermolysis was occurring, i.e. that water was being split by the heat of the plasma reaction. My supposition is that excess hydrogen was observed when at least part of it was not "consumed" inside the cell (producing excess heat there). Possibly the heat of formation of Hydrinos could be involved instead?
Admittedly, this does not have much to do with the initial NMR idea of this thread and I was not trying to link it to that. It was more in relation to Robin's suggestion of using a saturated KOH solution in an electrolytic cell, which I found interesting because that is something I personally explored a while back in crude experiments, as it can significantly lower the voltage from which a visible plasma can be observed (about 25-30V). Other electrolytes at saturation concentration are instead more likely to accumulate on the cathode and dissociate there, producing larger amounts of metallic K which might actually be more useful for Robin's proposal.
Cheers, BA
