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Jim Wilkins
- Jan 1, 1970
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Morris Dovey said:On 8/31/11 4:39 PM, Jim Wilkins wrote:
There's only one way to know for sure and, because I already had a solar
project that's also a good mesh with a small reactor, I ordered up a pound
(~0.45kg) of filamentary nickel powder (and have sent a couple ounces off
to a friend in Belgium so he can do independent testing on his own).
...
Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
http://www.iedu.com/Solar/
The CCD array in a camera makes a good cheap detector for ionizing radiation
such as gamma rays. Neutrons are more difficult. Possibly a night-vision
scope would work, but I'm not about to inflame the suspicions of Homeland
Security by researching it further on line. I already can hear office-noise
crosstalk on the dialup phone line.
I think sewage treatment plants have Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometers to
measure trace metal contamination. Do-it-yourself wet chemical techniques
aren't that difficult but perhaps not sensitive enough. The type of lab
weighing scale you might find surplus resolves down to micrograms.
Thermocouples:
http://www.omega.com/temperature/tsc.html
I've used glass-encapsulated thermistor probes to measure the temperature of
a liquid I couldn't afford to contaminate.
Home electroplating kits:
http://www.caswellplating.com/kits/index.html
The nickel deposit may not be chemically pure.
Good luck with it
jsw