Single circuits generate nuclear reactions

[sparks]

@Mike

           I ran an electrocoagulation unit that was in a lined stainless steel reaction chamber.  (Ultrasonic agitation of the aluminum oxide forming on the sacrificial anode made the ss transponder tank walls necessary)  There was 230volt dc applied to a plate stack of aluminum.  The nickel and steel broke down from the electrolysis in area's of the tank that were never thought to receive any type of voltage.  I would really look your stainless over.  Your iron may be coming from the ss in an ion exchange with the graphite.

[mikewatson]

@Sparks

Yes, to test for this I have done the experiment with two graphites and with graphite and tungsten and I still get the stuff attracted by a magnet. If two dissimilar materials are used the graphite is always negative.

Champion does it by striking an arc (no electrolyte) with a graphite rod into graphite powder inside a graphite crucible and gets this magnetisable material. Michio Kushi says it also works with striking an arc on graphite powder in a copper dish, again no electrolyte, I have not tried these

Mike

[sparks]

    I've seen the same stuff in electolysis machines but always thought it was because of dissolved iron in the water or coming from impurities in the electrodes.
hmmmm

[mikewatson]

@Sparks

Amateur research capabilities are clearly limited so the best you can do is to buy stuff already guaranteed purity. The high purity graphite rods are expensive but you do get an analysis of their trace element content, a few parts per million of iron and less of other paramagnetic elements. The water is lab grade, but anyway some of the magnetic crud pieces produced are the size of a pin head, hardly trace elements. Of course it is not possible to do absolutely conclusive experiments without a university lab.  The only comfort is that Prof. Bockriss apparently repeated this and other similar experiments at A&M university.   
The real problem is conceptual because it does not fit the current paradigm of nuclear reactions requiring huge energies, which ideas are the natural evolution of Rutherford's experiments in the Cavendish laboratory with particle accelerators using voltage multipliers and later the cyclotron etc ending with the LHC at Cern.
There may be other ways though; Champion suggests that the nucleus is arranged in alpha particle  sized blocks which can get easily rearranged with little energy and no dangerous particle emissions, so for example 10* alpha = ₂₀Ca⁴⁰and oxygen and carbon give iron 2(₆C¹² + ₈O¹⁶) = ₂₈Fe⁵⁶.
The important possibility is that some of these reaction could be usefully exothermic without the danger of emitted nuclear particles.

Mike

[BEP]

@All

If this brown substance is indeed a transmuted form of carbon - you have the secret to making carbon storage a safe reality.

......Carbon storage as it relates to clean coal fired power generation and other forms of carbon that may be captured.

Brown doesn't mean it is iron either. Neither does ferromagnetic response to a magnet.

I think it would be interesting to know if a similar experiment with no carbon element, within a CO2 or CO filled chamber created such brown material.