[NewCandle] experiments and observations

[Robin van Spaandonk]

In reply to  Keith Nagel's message of Fri, 6 Jun 2008 10:07:17 -0800:
Hi,
[snip]
>The active area around this transmutation site might
>be poisoned by the mercury byproduct amalgamating with
>the lead 'fuel'. Unless of course, the mercury is
>the catalyst, in which case the battery would chain
>react... I suppose batteries have been known to
>explode when charged, but with 1/2 to 1 MeV per
>reaction I'd expect a crate the size of lake
>michigan.
[snip]
A chain reaction usually only happens when some part of the output of the
reaction triggers another similar reaction.
There is no such causative link in this case. The degree to which the reaction
occurred at all would depend on how/if the decay reaction was triggered by an
external cause (e.g. electric shock), in which case, one probably wouldn't get
very many of them occurring at any one time.
Regards,

Robin van Spaandonk

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