[NewCandle] aluminum holiday

[Nick Reiter]

Hi Horace,

Very interesting, thanks for the thought.  Adding T
and P is something I have not done yet, intentionally,
although I suspect that the rupture-like aspect of
some of the pinholing in the deep foil rolls is saying
some localized pressures are building up, as well as
heat.  But adding some of one or both in the form of a
pressure vessel could be wild - agreed.

The so called "Pixie" trials, with Al foil rolls and
salts for hydrolysis, have all been conducted in
plastic polypropylene buckets, and so thus carbon
could be in abundance where it might not in a
stainless steel or glass vessel.

n

> in a high pressure hydrogen plus helium environment,
> and which has  
> been discussed extensively on vortex-l.  The foil
> you use, or some  
> other material, may have enough carbon to have a
> detectible effect,  
> and who knows how aluminum itself might react? 
> Temperature is  
> extremely important in OH + Al reactions.
> 
> A pressure cooker might be of use, but the pressure
> relief would have  
> to be a lot better. Also, water recovery would have
> to be used for  
> longer term running. A fairly long plastic hose
> could be used for a  
> reflux distilling type recovery system.  Maybe just
> a plain pot with  
> a hole drilled in the ordinary lid for attaching a
> water recovery  
> system would be enough.  A sudden excursion would
> just blow the lid off.



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