[NewCandle] now here's a curious thing

[Keith Nagel]

Nick,

I sort of agree with Jones here; I suspect you are displacing out
the uranium which is then concentrated on the aluminum surface.
Won't this concentration cause an increase in the count?
The displacement reaction would reach a stable point pretty
quickly, explaining why you would see the bump in count and
then very little change. Decreasing over time could be additional
crap forming over the displaced U, or just chunks of U and Al
breaking off the main body. I'll leave it to Horace to explore
the nuclear implications; too far out of my understanding. Here's
hoping your observation remains unexplained by all of us!

BTW, I'm pretty sure a simple extraction with nitric acid would
be sufficient to produce a strong solution of U.  

K.

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Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 11:19 AM
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Subject: Re: [NewCandle] now here's a curious thing


Nick 

Where was the monitor place relative to the axis of the rolls when you got
the high count?

Is there a variation now, in counts from moving the monitor to different
positions (above below etc)? Did you check for "geometry preference"
initially?

There is a good chance that if you were measuring from above - initially,
then- when the Al was placed in the solution, which had been stored as a
stable liquid - that any slight chemical reaction would cause the heavy
gaseous "daughters" - radon, xexon etc - to rise out of the solution and
impinge or get closer to the meter, giving the higher reading. The daughter
decay gases are millions of time more radioactive per atom, so the closer
they can aggregate to the meter - the higher you reading will appear from
them alone.

Jones



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