I agree. This is nothing more than alloying, say having an impurity in Na metal or an excess of chlorine in NaCl.
On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Edmund Storms <[email protected]>wrote: > This paper by Oganov is full of exaggerations. High pressure has been used > for years to create new materials and explore compounds that cannot form > under normal pressure. The authors of this paper give the impression they > discovered something new in violation of chemical laws. Thus is not the > case. They simply applied a well understood method while using the accepted > chemical laws. They only found a behavior in a particular chemical system > (NaCl) that did not behave as they expected. Such surprises happen > frequently in chemistry. This surprise does not give permission to assume > the chemical laws can be easily violated. Unlike QM in physics, chemistry > is an OLD science that has been practiced under a huge range of conditions. > The chemical laws have, with very few exceptions, been found to apply. LENR > occurs in a chemical system, unlike hot fusion. This requires chemistry be > considered. > > Ed Storms > > > On Dec 21, 2013, at 3:18 PM, Alan Fletcher wrote: > > From: "H Veeder" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 6:21:41 PM >> Subject: [Vo]:New Salt Compounds Challenge the Foun >> >> To Oganov, impossible didn't mean something absolute. "The rules of >>> chemistry are not like mathematical theorems, which cannot be broken," he >>> says. "The rules of chemistry can be broken, because impossible only means >>> 'softly' impossible! You just need to find conditions where these rules no >>> longer hold." >>> >> >> Doesn't apply to physics and LENR, of course. >> >> >
