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Re: [Vo]:MFMP Hypothesis: Celani Wire Splits Hydrogen
Kevin O'Malley Wed, 16 Oct 2013 20:41:58 -0700

I suspect this is the key. 42% better absorption into the metal matrix. If it's a surface effect, then why would higher absorption into the bulk create more reliable excess heat events & reactions?

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 8:37 PM, Kevin O'Malley wrote:
> http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/jcp/101/12/10.1063/1.467850
> > Direct reaction of gas‐phase atomic hydrogen with chemisorbed hydrogen on
> Ru(001) > > T. A. > Jachimowski
> 1 and W. H.
> Weinberg
> 1 > [image: +] View Affiliations
> J. Chem. Phys. 101, 10997 (1994); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.467850 >
> > The adsorption of gas‐phase atomic hydrogen on the Ru(001) surface results
> in a saturation coverage of 1.42 hydrogen adatoms per primitive surface
> unit cell, which may be compared with a saturation coverage of one hydrogen
> adatom per primitive surface unit cell in the case of dissociative
> chemisorption of molecular hydrogen. The observed saturation fractional
> coverage of 1.42 results from a steady‐state balance of adsorption of
> gas‐phase atomic hydrogen and reaction of gas‐phase hydrogen with
> chemisorbed hydrogen adatoms, which produces molecular hydrogen that
> desorbs from the surface at a temperature at least 150 K below the
> temperature of recombinative desorption of two hydrogen adatoms. The cross
> section of this direct reaction of hydrogen was found to be remarkably
> large, approximately 40% of the cross section for chemisorption of the
> gas‐phase atomic hydrogen. The reaction was found not to depend on surface
> temperature nor was there an observable kinetic isotope effect.
> © 1994 American Institute of Physics >