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

[Nick Reiter]

Yeah, wouldn' it though!

You know, a good portion of my original incentive over
a year ago to really look into rolled aluminum
hydrolysis was the notion that the tight micron-ish
spacing between foil turns would provide a modified
vacuum energy density (a casimir cavity).  And I
suspect it does just that, but maybe its in the wrong
direction... 

I remember Scott and Hal's experiment from a few years
ago where they were trying to look for an altered
ground state for hydrogen flowing through a casimir
cavity.  My recollection is that it was in the end
inconclusive.  Now maybe to tweak chemical reactions
(such as hydrolysis) you need to provide a cavity or
zone in which the vacuum fluctuation energy density is
enhanced rather than attenuated.  I know different
geometries can drive it both ways. (positive and
negative Casimir effects)  Wonder what a good form
would be to make for an enhanced negative(repelling)
Casimir force in a reactive set...?  foil planes +
spheres?

N
--- Jones Beene <jonesb9 at pacbell.net> wrote:

> 
> --- Nick 
> 
> > This was salt water hydrolysis, so presumably
> NaCl...
> 
> 
> Oh sorry - thought your were using heavy water. 
> 
> That would have been a major story !
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