In reply to Mark Iverson's message of Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:18:11 -0800: Hi, [snip] >I am finally caught up with reading all the postings, and I fully expected >someone to have pointed >out the obvious way to stop a runaway condition... Shut off the hydrogen!! >Has it not been said >NUMEROUS times that the thing stops very quickly after the hydrogen supply is >shut off?? > >I MUST be missing something here... That's too simple, and I'm the slow one of >the bunch! > >If that won't reverse the runaway condition fast enough, inject a >contaminating gas... Perhaps, of >all things, steam?
Probably not a good idea. Hot finely divided Ni and steam => NiO + H2. In short one would be adding Hydrogen. ;) BTW perhaps this is what happened to all the water?? ;^) Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
