[NewCandle] Constrained hydrolysis

Jones Beene jonesb9 at pacbell.net
Mon Mar 5 22:11:30 EST 2007


Nick mentioned the hypodermic needle as a way to keep the flow of gas 
constant. Here is kind of a 'thinking allowed' strange thought. Lets say 
you have a fully sealed and strong cell so that pressure can build up. 
At the top you have an small opening blocked with a proton conductor, 
and then  a very fine long needle, with the smallest possible ID, and 
you place cylindrical NIB magnet around it such that the needle 
protrudes though it -- and the exiting H2 flow must feel the strong 
axial field. Oxygen cannot escape so it must build up pressure and will 
combine with the Al or H2, but mostly the Al as H2 which has a high 
ignition temperature and you will probably not get an explosion.

H2 has very high mobility anyway and by restraining one axis of freedom 
with the magnetic field, you may have essentially (in my day-dream) 
squared the potential acceleration of the flux of molecules coming out. 
Can their kinetic energy add a fair proportion "excess" to the 
net-energy released when they eventually burn in air?



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