[NewCandle] Nick's SEM photos of his aluminum corrosion experiments

[Horace Heffner]

On Aug 14, 2008, at 11:11 AM, Keith Nagel wrote:
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Nick,

Great facility!

Where did all that iron come from in the "after" foil EDS?  Did you  
use distilled water?

If you are going to use up some D2O you might want to think about  
saving a bit for a boric acid conditioning of aluminum electrodes  
using HV AC.  For the reason why, see page 6 of:

http://mtaonline.net/~hheffner/NuclearZPEtapping.pdf

If you drive up the surface carbon after running a fairly long while  
then I think it would be quite a discovery.  For this kind of  
experiment I think it is important to stay out of electrospark regime  
and thus avoid the pinholes/erosion and stay in the glow regime.

Best regards,

Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/