I am starting to feel a new animation coming on where the fractional diatoms squeeze very slowly into the lattice but every time the diatomic bond "pops" on one of them it causes a small chain reaction and further bursting of any other nearby fractional diatoms nearing their breaking threshold. Since the electrolysis or thermal energy creates monatomic gas which loads quickly into the cavities has been removed the de-loading slows to a crawl. the atoms cool and form diatoms which are confined by Pd's membrane property Initially the monatoms in the lattice will de-load quickly but their loss draws the fractional diatoms out of the cavity in a hard to predict population of fractional gas cycling between f/d1 and f/d2. I posit the diatom releases energy every time it forms but is restored to atomic energy level by the delta in vacuum energy giving the normally chaotic random motion of gas law a favored vector towards geometry where Casimir force is reduced. I am not saying COE is violated but that it normally ignores ZPE which always sums to zero inside a common inertial frame -I am saying this normal cancellation is avoided if you can build an energy capture system that cages the energy in one frame but releases it in another. A fractional diatomic bond may represent such a "trap".
Regards Fran
