Ponderations on Cavitation (Updated with impressive results from a paper of 2018)
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Hi Fabrice,
I would be very interested to hear more details of your Prof.Chemia's process for enriching
Li6. Did he use aqueous/amalgam technique ? or if he used a thermal gradient how could he make this work with such small (lab bench) apparatus ?
Pete.
During World War II, the Germans had five independent nuclear programs, and several enrichment programs. Notably the Von Ardenne team and the Klemm team. They also had several reactor projects. One of these reactors is well known, Alhfors published a full-scale mock-up reconstruction above. There were two other reactor projects in France. One in the forbidden zone, and another in the Toulouses arsenal, next to a deuterium isotope separation plant, built there in order to replace the Norsk Hydro plant of Norway.
An urban legend among the students of the Faculty of Medicine of Toulouse claims that nuclear devices are still in the German bunker which is now in the stadium of the university (at the time, it was farm fields located far in the outside of the town.)
Klemm discovered a process for electrophoresis of molten salts through a very fine sand filter (he tried lithium chloride and fluorides of various metals.)
It worked, but it was very difficult to industrialize, from a technical point of view, because you had to operate in electric furnaces and molten lithium attacks all materials at the melting temperature of Lithium chloride.
But he was getting good levels of isotope separation.
After the war, Marius Chemla who was assistant to Joliot-Curie discovered that it was possible to use a LiBr / KBr eutectic which melts at a lower temperature, and bromine is easier to handle than chlorine or fluorine. He replaced the sand diaphragm with an asbestos diaphragm, and curiously, instead of separating the potassium bromide from the lithium bromide, the K / Li rate stabilizes quickly on each side but on the other hand, the lithium concentration 7 climb to 99% in a few days. (Of course, the isotopes of potassium are also separated, one side becomes more radioactive, but not in a dangerous way)
This is The Chemla Effect.
I have suggested improvements, but they have never been tested. Maybe one day I will have the opportunity to do them in an American academic laboratory?
I believe there is no scientific consensus on the cause of the Chemla Effect. (As for the Ranque effect, by the way ...)
Having become a professor at Paris-Sorbonne University, Marius Chemla was the first to reproduce the experience of Fleischman and Pons in France, in his laboratory of the Jussieu square.
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... and the intermediate French maillon de chaîne between Kurt Diebner and Michel Laberge [1944 >>> 2005] fusion machinery
A - DE1414759A1 Verfahren zur Verwertung der Fusionsenergie von Deuterium und Tritium mit Hilfe konvergenter, periodischer Verdichtungsstöße
B - WO9116713A1 PROCEDE ET DISPOSITIF POUR PRODUIRE DE L'ENERGIE DE FUSION A PARTIR D'UNE MATIERE FUSIBLE
C - US2005129161A1 Apparatus and method for fusion reactor
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Plus a today revival of Diebner original scheme of spark drived shock waves - good ideas never die.
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Hi Curbina and Fabrice,
Thanks for your comments.
I mistook Chemla for Chemia (wasn't wearing my glasses !)
It seems the Chemla effect has to do with ion size,
but since ions and atoms are 10-5 (100,000) x larger than nuclei
it seems odd that there should be an isotope effect based on that
understanding.So I think the effect is not fully undestood any more
than the Ranque or Mpemba effects.
Pete.
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Hi Curbina and Fabrice,
Thanks for your comments.
I mistook Chemla for Chemia (wasn't wearing my glasses !)
It seems the Chemla effect has to do with ion size,
but since ions and atoms are 10-5 (100,000) x larger than nuclei
it seems odd that there should be an isotope effect based on that
understanding.So I think the effect is not fully undestood any more
than the Ranque or Mpemba effects.
Pete.
You don't have to touch the nucleus in order to influence it. I do not know why the focus is always on tritium and deuterium (because of fusion), trust that protium would do us well.
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I keep looking at these tables from Omasa’s patent application and reviewing the process as is presented and performed on video,
to see where the source of error could explain such changes in elements present in the solution.
In our small project we are already seeing evidence of this being possible with cavitation periods of 5 minutes that produce significant changes of concentration of one participant reactant, and showing that one initially absent element appears.I proposed the project basically to see if this was possible at all, and answer my own curiosity about it, while at the same time producing results with an experimental design that could remove some, if not all, of the usual criticisms to published works that have seen similar results. The use of chemical solutions instead of solid targets removes a number of objections from the start, as characterization of liquid solutions composition can be very accurate and contaminations easily discarded, all of this thinking from the chemical analysis point of view.
We still have a lot of work to do to be able to confirm such observations exhaustively, but seeing results on the early runs is something that even if expected, is still tantalizing.
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This is boring as no analysis of the heavy water/tritium is shown....Also no changes for 10,20,60 minute run...
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BTW, Roger S. Stringham has joined the forum, (Welcome, Roger!) and he probably knows more about this topic than almost anybody else in the world. I hope he finds time to comment.
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This is boring as no analysis of the heavy water/tritium is shown....Also no changes for 10,20,60 minute run...
I understand you mean that as sarcasm to some extent. But let's assume that all the new elements come as contamination of the D2O and Tritium, just for the sake of the analysis.
What is by far more intriguing to me is the reduction in the initial concentration of Cs in the solution, which has not been diluted, neither precipitated, sequestered in other precipitates (no precipitates at all are formed) and of course has not been vaporized or somehow made volatile at those temperatures. 1900 mg/l of Cs vanished, when the cavitation is performed with D2O, and 2820 mg/l when its performed with tritium containing water.
Where does the Cesium go!?
Of course a time response curve would be wonderful, but it would require a more complex experimental approach as the sampling would be constantly changing the volume of the solution.
Anyway, you have to put this into context as Dr. Omasa didn't even know he was cavitating the solutions, he uses a frequency of 175 Hz for the motion of the vanes, but they generate ultrasound through resonance (if I recall correctly the MFMP measured between 20 to 28 Khz with the hydrophone inside the solution being vibrated).
Dr. Omasa just observed that the solutions experienced changes through time, he never even attempted to know exactly why.
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BTW, Roger S. Stringham has joined the forum, (Welcome, Roger!) and he probably knows more about this topic than almost anybody else in the world. I hope he finds time to comment.
I very much look forward to hear from him, also, his published work and patents are also fascinanting.
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Where does the Cesium go!?
Depends on the jar used. Glass exchange reactions are possible.
I do not exclude transmutations at all. But most experiments are done by dilettantes, that always leave behind many questions and doubts.
Doing precision MS is expensive. So details must be given about how the measurements have been done.
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Depends on the jar used. Glass exchange reactions are possible.
I do not exclude transmutations at all. But most experiments are done by dilettantes, that always leave behind many questions and doubts.
Doing precision MS is expensive. So details must be given about how the measurements have been done.
You gave me some good laughs Wyttenbach, haven't read the word "dilettante" in a good while.
But please consider that an error of that magnitude would be easily seen in the methodology applied, and a glass ion exchange of that magnitude would certainly alter the properties of the glass to a macroscopically noticeable level. In the case of Omasa he had the samples analyzed by an external laboratory, so if the samples were not adulterated purposefully, the measurements can be considered to be precise enough.
Anyway, precisely for that kind of mistrusts is that we are doing experiments with controls (same reactives in the same type of reaction chamber but with non cavitating conditions of strirring and equivalent energy input), precisely to dispel that kind of criticism, which I understand when we are talking about differences of a couple of mg/L but not when we are talking about grams per liter.
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lease consider that an error of that magnitude would be easily seen in the methodology applied,
6.7mg Cs ... you will not find this (tiny crystal somewhere) in your jar even with a magnifying glass. 6.7g would be something else...
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6.7mg Cs ... you will not find this (tiny crystal somewhere) in your jar even with a magnifying glass. 6.7g would be something else...
The starting concentration of Cs was 6.7 g/L (6700 mg/L) and the amount of liquid usually involved in a Omasa test is at least 1 liter, and up to 5 liters, due to the size of the vibrating vane apparatus. We are talking here of the disappearance of 2,82 grams of Cs in one liter, that would not be easy to miss, hence my certainty to say that it would be macroscopically easy to see.
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The starting concentration of Cs was 6.7 g/L (6700 mg/L) and the amount of liquid usually involved in a Omasa test is at least 1 liter, and up to 5 liters, due to the size of the vibrating vane apparatu
And how can 2 grams disappear as these do not shine up in other elements? Just 100mg are seen.
This is what I miss: Serious equations of transformation as given by Urutskov and others.
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And how can 2 grams disappear as these do not shine up in other elements? Just 100mg are seen.
This is what I miss: Serious equations of transformation as given by Urutskov and others.
The cumulative masses of the new elements as per Omasa’s reported results is 0,3 grams/liter. You can’t assume that they measured every new element created, but a subset of them, a subset that was relevant from practical embodiment purposes. A part of the new elements is possibly gaseous and therefore lost to the atmosphere.
I doubt a mass balance has been done but it could reveal if there’s a net mass loss, while analyzing for all other elements is possible but probably not done by lack of relevance for a patent application.
As per precise theory prediction, that’s something that requires first to do a lot more of observation to find the underlying mechanism. Parkhomov’s tables provide a general reference of what can be expected from the elements in play but a more fundamental mechanism will take a good while to be developed.
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The cumulative masses of the new elements as per Omasa’s reported results is 0,3 grams/liter.
But here the difference is 3 grams even more unlikely...
As said if amateurs do science I usually ignore the results. The mismatch is 1000% in other domains this simply is fraud.
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