[NewCandle] Palladium based bulk metallic glass

[Horace Heffner]

On Dec 30, 2008, at 8:28 AM, Keith Nagel wrote:

> Hi Horace,
>
> Boy, I must have been drinking too much eggnog. I see there
> is no oxygen at all in these new compositions, so they are pure
> metals as you were trying to point out to me. Sorry for
> the confusion.
>
> For what it is worth, I think one could obtain the dendritic
> structure just by heat treating a glassy alloy. The
> result would be a two phased alloy, with one phase being
> the dendrite and the other being the bulk matrix. Interestingly
> enough, one of the first glassy alloys was made with 77.5% palladium,
> 6% copper, and 16.5% silicon in '69. An improved material
> capable of being made in bulk was developed in the 80's,
> composed of 55% palladium, 22.5% lead, and 22.5% antimony.
> There's your base alloy for LENR type experiments.
>
> K.

Interesting alloy, but does it have the extreme properties of the  
materials in the patent?  Such an alloy might be useful to rule out  
excess heat from heavy LENR, as opposed to hydrogen fusion.  OTOH,  
any alloy mostly composed of elements lighter than Fe, especially Li,  
Be, Mg, Al, or Ti, might be useful for demonstrating heavy LENR  
excess heat, even with only protium.  There are numerous proton  
fusion reactions with isotopes all the way out to Ni that produce  
excess heat, and some don't require a weak force reaction.  It might  
be useful to examine all the possible reactions.  It sure would be  
great to obtain a strong excess heat signal or clear transmutations  
without having to use deuterium.  I expect that might open up a huge  
phase of amateur experimentation.

Best regards,

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