Cold Fusion&Slow Oxidation etc.
I forgot to pose the etc question namely are there other chemical
reactions similar, in being exothermic and giving off heat , to oxidation
that have very rapid and very slow reaction rates?
Quote:
>There are chain reactions in
>chemistry as in physics eg chemical combustion reactions and maybe there is
>a milder chain reaction or an increase in the rate of oxidation before an
>Arhennius type exponential decrease as oxidation proceeds in the case of
>rust or other oxidation reactions?
> I seem to recall and please correct me if this is not the case, that
rust
>on iron requires water vapor at least at ordinary temperatures and
pressures
>to occur and that one portion of the iron acts as an anode while the other
>acts as a cathode which reacts to the hydrogen and oxygen in water vapor
by
>releasing electrons from the outer shell of the iron atoms that then going
>through the metal
>join some of the water vapor becoming negative hydroxyl ions. And the next
>stage is that
>there seems to be a greater affinity of the oxygen part of the hydroxly ion
>as it bumps
>up against an iron atom with greater force than in the case of unionized
>atom
>so that one or two oxygen atoms with the extra electron joins positive
iron
>ion.
> Now suppose that nuclei contain virtual orbiting charged particles going
>at superluminal
>speeds and that when two these nuclei bump up against each other at higher
>than normal pressures
>temperatures, or with a voltage difference produced by a temporary small
>local redistribution of charge that
>a positively or negatively charged electron like particle in one nucleus
>becomes on rare occassions shared with an adjacent nucleus and in some even
>rarer cases
>results in the emission of a neutron that helps increase the reaction rate.
> Deuterium in high concentrations and at high pressures and over room
>temp in a Palladium type lattice may fit such a scenario with a reaction
>rate that is much slower than hot fusion?
> Or the oxidation of the Palladium type metal might be the only generator
>of excess heat?
>--
>Ralph Sansbury, http://www.bestweb.net/~sansbury