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   amdx  wrote in news:2de5f$4f15e3b6$18ec6dd7$1039   
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   >   Listening to the Rossi interview.   
   >   Rossi stated that the copper transmutation is a side effect.   
   > I'm not sure what that means!   
   > Is the heat produced by the transmutation?   
   > Is the heat produced when the proton is removed from the hydrogen?   
   > What's left when you remove the proton from hydrogen?   
   >   
   >                       Mikek   
      
   Look at the periodic table. Ni is element #28, Cu #29.  What's the   
   difference?  Right, exactly 1 (proton).  The assumption is that there is   
   fusion taking place, whereby a non-natural isotope of copper is formed,   
   "transmutated" from the nickel.  The natural (averaged) atomic weights of   
   Ni and Cu are respectively 58.7 and 63.5.   This would suggest that the   
   newly formed Cu would have an atomic weight of roughly (averaged) 59.7,   
   and thus be almost 4 neutrons short.  I wonder how stable such isotope(s)   
   would be.   
      
   On the other hand, if the heating of Ni and H2 would make the hydrogen   
   "dissolve" into the nickel, creating an alloy-like material, one wonders   
   whether that process would/should have a positive or negative delta G.   
   My thermodynamics is really stale after almost 50 years ...   
      
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