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E-Cat Quark-X LENR in 1956? (Alan Smith)
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Interesting patent. I will speculate that what is going on in the Colman device is that the fission and beta decay of cadmium are being brought about somehow by the combination of electric current, RF and doping provided by the phosphorus and cobalt.
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3Ca(PO3)2 is tricalcium phosphate.
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3Ca(PO3)2 is tricalcium phosphate.
Cobalt(II) nitrate hexahydrate (Co(NO3)2·6H2O) is the hydrated cobalt salt. Its step-wise thermal degradation has been investigated. It affords anhydrous cobalt(II)nitrate as decomposition product
Cd Cl2- Cadmium chloride is a white crystalline compound of cadmium and chlorine, with the formula CdCl2.
3Ca(Po3)2+10C =
This sounds a lot like a historical recreation of the synthesis of phosphorus. Concentrated horse urine was used as the phosphate source and I think, charcoal provided the carbon.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hennig_Brand
Hennig Brand's recipe was:
Boil urine to reduce it to a thick syrup.
Heat until a red oil distills up from it, and draw that off.
Allow the remainder to cool, where it consists of a black spongy upper part and a salty lower part.
Discard the salt, mix the red oil back into the black material.
Heat that mixture strongly for 16 hours.
First white fumes come off, then an oil, then phosphorus.
The phosphorus may be passed into cold water to solidify.
The chemical reaction Brand stumbled on was as follows. Urine contains phosphates PO43−, as sodium phosphate (i.e. with Na+), and various carbon-based organics. Under strong heat the oxygens from the phosphate react with carbon to produce carbon monoxide CO, leaving elemental phosphorus P, which comes off as a gas. Phosphorus condenses to a liquid below about 280°C and then solidifies (to the white phosphorus allotrope) below about 44°C (depending on purity). This same essential reaction is still used today (but with mined phosphate ores, coke for carbon, and electric furnaces).
Brand's process yielded far less phosphorus than it could have done. The salt part he discarded contained most of the phosphate. He used about 5,500 litres of urine to produce just 120 grams of phosphorus. If he had ground up the entire residue he could have got many times more than this (1 litre of adult human urine contains about 1.4g of phosphorus salts, which amounts to around 0.11 grams of pure white phosphorus).
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Although they may have made P from piss,
There were probably better places to get it in 1956.
