 Interesting experiment
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Conundrum
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Fri May 20 2011, 09:48PM
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Hi all.
Just had an idea if someone wants to try it.
Get an atomically flat palladium disk and install an atomically flat axial diamond coated titanium alloy bar across it in a "U" shape on both sides with a support frame to stop it deforming under load.
Make sure it has a very small gap on the order of a few nanometres.
Spin the disk at 100,000 RPM or so.
Then pressurise the chamber with deuterium to 30 atmospheres or so.
The idea here is that because the palladium absorbs deuterium and expands, at some point the
heat and pressure between the two sides of the "anvil" could cause detectable fusion.
Could also be used as a substitute for an expensive anvil press for testing exotic materials.
Has this been done before, because I haven't heard of anything remotely like this being tried.
Yes I am aware that this is a bit "off the wall" but it does seem like an amusing idea.
-A
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cduma
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I think that this is way beyond what any engineers would be capable of doing
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CZA
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Troll, banned on 11/1/2011.
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How would you ever be able to do that?
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