[NewCandle] Rolled Al hydrolysis

[Nick Reiter]

Ahoy, Keith,

Was curious if you had tried the roll-o-foil in the
distilled water cylinder yet?

I started another one going.  After about a 48 hour
catalyzing period or dwell time, I start to get
hydrolysis, and at about T+70 hours, I was cruising at
around 10 to 15 ml/m of (apparently) H2.

The real test is coming together in the form of a tidy
little experiment.  Four vessels, with distilled H2O
in two and an alkaline "amalgam" forming solute (like
dilute KOH or NaOH) in two.  100 square feet of Al
foil added to each one, except in one case each for
distilled H2O and alkaline solution we have loose
crinkled strips or shreds, the other two are tightly
stacked or rolled layers, to produce some regions
where presumably a Casimir type cavity would prevail. 
Which hydrolizes faster and more effectively?

I'm still trying to wrap my head around what the
predicted influence would be on a chemical reaction
occuring in a vacuum mode constrained space....

NR


 
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