thermal electrochemical corrosion of the electric input power heating resistor in the Rossi device: Rich Murray 2011.07.19

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thermal electrochemical corrosion of the electric input power heating
resistor in the Rossi device: Rich Murray 2011.07.19
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[Vo]: Uppsala University Denies Rossi Research Agreement
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Thanks, Joshua Cude, for your clear, earnest interpretations.

What is known about the heating resistor -- manufacturer, shape, mass,
construction, electric conductors, insulating ceramics, exact
dimensions, location within the device, exact descriptions of the
electric power cables to it, exposure to water flow or H2 gas?

What are the exact dimensions, shapes, and composition of the device,
insulation, inlet, outlet, Pb shielding, Cu walls, stainless steel
walls, Ni micropowder, etc.?

I imagine that the catalyst is a real red herring, with no actual effects.

I imagine that the resistor ceramic is susceptible to cracking from
thermal stress due to uneven heating and cooling in space and time,
expansion of the conductors with increasing electric power and
resulting temperatures, and cooling at the resistor leads along the
thick electrical conductors.

These cracks open the devil's door within the witch's cauldron.  The
city water becomes rapidly more electrically conducting, as
evaporation at hot spots concentrates ordinary minerals as dissolved
ions, which readily plate out as ordinary boiler scale.  The network
of cracks evolves quickly, tending to grow as "trees" from each input
electrode end to the other, as the 230 volt AC becomes applied across
a smaller and smaller separation -- all of this, most likely, along
the surface of the resistor, where layers of print and enamel will
facilitate the initial cracking, where mineral ions from the input
water flow will keep increasing in concentration and thus increase the
electrical conductivity in complex positive feedback chaotic
processes.

The complex network of surface cracks causes the electrolysis of water
into H2 and O2 as nano to micro bubbles, free to recombine or to
combine with other chemicals anywhere in the water volume of the
device.

Recombination of H2 and O2 on the metal thermister or thermometer
could release local heat that would give misleading readings.

Meanwhile as temperature rises within the resistor, its metallic
conductors will respond with increasing resistance, while at the same
time the tree-like networks of conducting surface cracks are growing
in overall fractal volume and closer to each other, increasing the
effective available electric potential for their nano to micro scale
growing tips -- so more and more of the applied electric power will be
flowing into this network of rapidly growing, rapidly heating surface
nano to micro cracks -- thus heating the frothing water and leading to
complex hot flows of H2O gas, along with H2 and O2, which could result
in higher temperature readings for a thermometer that happens to be in
a hot spot in the device.

This surface electrochemical corrosion scenario could explain the
start of overall rise in measured water temperature with constant
input electric power at the 60-70 deg C level -- the input heating
resistor being  "O ring" weak point in the Rossi device.

Once conducting cracks directly link the two electrodes, shorting and
arcing will explode the resistor, perhaps subverting the ability of
the constant power electric supply to limit extreme transient flows,
while also releasing chemical energy from complex chemical reactions,
and also promply melting and disrupting the stainless steel container
and its 50 gm Ni micropowder, catalyst, and absorbed H gas, creating
explosive reactions among many chemicals.

This scenario may also apply as a conventional explanation for many
types of CF or LENR devices.

However, claims of transmutations, isotopic shifts, and radiations
have been made for similar processes in high voltage power cables.

So, it is possible that electrochemical corrosion can perhaps create
nano to micro scale reaction regions that sustain CF or LENR
anomalies.


self-organizing networks can develop simple test kits for metal
isotope anomalies in 'water tree' corrosion of thin polyethylene
films, re T Kumazawa 2005 -- 2008 Japan: Rich Murray 2011.06.03
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reactive gas micro and nano bubbles complicate Widom-Larsen theory re
electrolytic cells -- metal isotope anomalies in 'water tree'
corrosion of power cable polyethylene insulation, T Kumazawa et al
2005 -- 2008 Japan: Rich Murray 2011.06.02
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It is essential to alert all experimenters as to the danger of
explosions when massive input electric energy is applied to small,
confined volumes.

Both believers and skeptics have available here a plausible general
scenario for conducting focused, effective research on the attainable
objective of open-minded investigation of new phenomena in
electrochemical corrosion.

[ Disclaimer: My father, Christopher Anderson Murray, BS, was a
corrosion chemical engineer for Pure Oil Company at Smith's Bluff
Refinery in Port Neches, Texas, from 1943 to his sudden death at age
49 on August 4, 1962
( Hi Dad, I hope you enjoy this...) ]
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