[NewCandle] Resonance effects on RF electrolysis

[Jones Beene]

-- Nick 

> Now I suppose it could be one of the great miracles
of physics that 13.56 happens to be the frequ. of
sodium at some H field ambient, but I reckon its just
the flavor of the generator he used...

Well it was random luck for Kanzius, as he freely
admits -- as he owned the medical version of the
common 13.56 MHz RF heating source, and he was looking
for a cancer cure- not water-splitting, so that much
is true, about the luck - but it is not the end of
story. 

-- then - Dr. Roy got involved - who after all was
already quite famous (he lectured at a conference I
attended 40 years ago, so he isn't young either) He
was doing experiments possibly related - and was
immediately interested when the story broke - and it
was he who was quick to make the claim about the
sodium resonance; but then it was never repeated in
print AFAIK. 

Keith and I questioned it last year when it came out,
and I spend several hours trying to track down an
authoritative reference but to no avail. 

Without this comment by Dr Roy, it would appear that
there is no connection whatever. My reference table
for Na gives the NMR resonance at 26.451 at 2.3488 T.
so there is no way that it could be 13.56 in the earth
field.

However we are probably NOT talking about the sodium
atom nor about NMR, but instead it is probably
refering to resonance of the Na ion bound to Cl -- so
this leaves open the possibility that they are talking
about the *ionic bond* of salt being resonant and NOT
the nucleus. Which makes sense.

Again - not enough info.

Jones