[NewCandle] that which reacteth not and is clear

[Nick Reiter]

Hi Horace and Keith,

Thanks both for the ideas.  I guess I have an
assortment of candidates then, at my disposal, as I
have acetone, benzene, and ethanol in decent purity,
and xylene in not as decent purity.

The idea comes on the heels of noticing that "Uncle"
Al Schwartz appears to have re-aligned himself behind
the casimatter concept again, which at first he
trumpeted and then poopoo'ed about 3 years ago.  I was
daft in not saving the link, but I saw it being
bantered about seriously on a Casimir and Vacuum
discussion board a couple of weeks ago.  Schwartz
original suggested structure was to build up many
layers of aluminum films spaced with about a half UV
wavelength worth of mag fluoride, which is UV
transparent past 250nm.  Last year, I made about a 10
fold version of this by thermal evap on glass, but far
too few layers to really do much with.

OTOH, I got to thinking that if one swirled up
aluminum spherules suspended in a UV transparent
vehicle, one might produce an aggregate transient
casimatter "negative energy density" mass condition.

The experiment I am anxious to try would be to take a
sealed flask with nano or micro - Al in say benzene or
ethanol, swirl it up into a whirling state, weigh it,
then take re-weigh readings as the particles settle
out into a quiescent pile.

And then hook it to the LEDs.

Just kidding on that last.

Thanks again, guys,

N


--- Horace Heffner <hheffner at mtaonline.net> wrote:

> 
> On Feb 25, 2008, at 12:13 PM, Nick Reiter wrote:
> 
> > Hey folks,
> >
> > I need some materials selection advice.  The topic
> is
> > a casimatter experiment, liquid phase.
> >
> > Are there any (hopefully low viscosity) liquid
> > compounds that:
> >
> > 1.  Would be able to non-reactively suspend /
> enclose
> > micron to submicron spherules of aluminum...
> >
> > AND
> >
> > 2.  Have as low an absorption or high a
> transparency
> > as possible, out past 250nm heading blue-ward.
> >
> 
> Since scintillation counting occurs in the UV range,
> solvents used  
> for that purpose are probably ideal.  Benzene,
> and/or toluene are  
> commonly used as solvents for liquid scintillation
> counting, as well  
> as fluorobenzene or xylene,  separately or in
> mixtures.
> 
> 
> Horace Heffner
> http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
> 
> 
> 
> 
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