Crystal Power CeLL by John Hutchison

[Koen1]

G'day all,

Today I thought I would try something different. Instead of using water as the fluid in the mix I used molten sulphur.

O-oh... I feel something coming...

I won't go into the specific ingedients in this mix, suffice to say there was enough sulphur to soak them all in.
The sodium silicate I did use was anhydrate.

Once the mix was molten ( around 140C ) it was poured into an aluminium tube, a copper electrode stuffed down the middle and 2KV
applied across the cell. That was fine.

However a spark of any description has the ability to ignite molten sulphur, and it did !

Lol I just knew it!
Nothing nasty happened to you, I hope??

So now my kitchen smells like the gates of hell to wit a friend of mind commented that I should get used to it.

Rofl funny friends you have

One of my friends, when we talk about my cell experiments and related chemical tinkering, often asks me
"so, have you been visited by any demons lately?"
which is really funny if you know what he's talking about:
Back in medieval times, alchemists would regularly be found dead in their workshops. Their doors locked,
no footsteps around, yet the alchemist would be found very lifeless behind their alchemical and occult
tools, and in almost all cases a horrible stench of sulphur would be smelled.
Of course, it was very clear to everyone what had killed the alchemist: it must have been demons, summoned
by the alchemist and his unholy occult magical arts. After all, everyone could smell the foul stench of
sulphur, ammonia, or whatever nasty chemical, and in those times that was immediately associated with demons.
lol.
So, Ian, your first demon visit.

Anyway once the flames were out I put the cell in a plastic container of sand, one to support it and two to slow the cooling process.
The cell was polarized for 20 minutes with 2KV.
After 20 mins I disconnected the HV and discovered another interesting fact.

Dry sand in an insulated container makes a very good capacitor, good enough to hold 2KV. Pulling the cell out of the sand was a shocking experience. 

Anyway the cell is a good capacitor and will hold a charge but does not operate as a current source.

Hmm too bad... Then again, sulphur was used as isolator in the olden days, so not terribly surprising...

So although this was a spectacular failure it was also another step on the path to success 

That's the spirit!

I seem to remember something about clay pots and sand as a power source, can anyone please jog my memory.

Well nothing springs to mind... I'd like to hear about that...

kind regards,
Koen

[dcarlson]

http://tvufo.tripod.com/id10.html

10. MANUFACTURED METALS MILLIONS OF YEARS OLD
For the past three decades miners at the Wonderstone Silver Mine near Ottosdal in the Western Transvaal, South Africa, have been extracting out of deep rock several strange metallic spheroids. So far at least 200 have been found. In 1979, several were closely examined by J.R. McIver, professor of geology at the University of Witwaterstand in Johannesburg, and geologist professor Andries Bisschoff of Potsshefstroom University.
The metallic spheroids look like flattened globes, averaging 1 to 4 inches in diameter, and their exteriors usually are colored steel blue with a reddish reflection, and embedded in the metal are tiny flecks of white fibers. They are made of a nickel-steel alloy which does not occur naturally, and is of a composition that rules them out, being of meteoric origin. Some have only a thin shell about a quarter of an inch thick, and when broken open are found filled with a strange spongy material that disintegrated into dust on contact with the air.
What makes all this very remarkable is that the spheroids were mined out of a layer of pyrophyllite rock, dated both geologically and by the various radio-isotope dating techniques as being at least 2.8 to 3 billion years old.
Adding mystery to mystery, Roelf Marx, curator of the South African Klerksdorp Museum, has discovered that the spheroid he has on exhibit slowly rotates on its axis by its own power, while locked in its display case and free of outside vibrations. There may thus be an energy extant within these spheroids still operating after three eons of time.

[ian middleton]

G'day all,

@dcarlson:  Thanks for the info. I'm sure theres more to it, somewhere.

@ Koen:  Mate, lost the contents of my inbox, can you please resend. 


Now about that sulphur cell.  It regenerates a voltage (200mV or so), bugger all current, after repeated shortings. One thing I do know for sure, this baby is not galvanic.
I'm going to make another one. I know..shock horror and all that, but someone has to do it 

Oh I haven't told you about the kitty litter yet 

Jurys out on the magnetic polarization at the moment.

more soon

Ian

[sutra]

Hi guys,

look what I've found here...

http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/abstract.cgi/cmatex/2004/16/i25/abs/cm048804r.html

@ Ian
if you want to insert sulphur into the mix...why don't you try to use sodium dithionate? It should be easier....

Ciao

[ian middleton]

G'day all,

@Sutra:  Very interesting link, we may be producing something similar in our mixes without knowing it.

The reason for using elemental sulphur ( instead of any of it's compounds ), was to create , as best as possible, a water free mix. The only water available was  the 5(H2O ) in the sodium silicate. Not enough to create an alkaline electrolyte between the copper and aluminium electrodes after baking.

This was a test cell to investigate how a recrystallized sulphur matrix reacted with our usual mix ingredients. Not unexpectedly the internal resistance of the cell is over 10Mohm. However after repeated discharges the cell developes a potential of around 200mV . I feel that a galvanic reaction is most unlikely in this case.

Any comments on this  would be welcome.

Regards   Ian