Ross Presser <rpresser@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 2) The number of nucleons definitely do NOT match up; Oxygen-18 has 8
> protons and 10 neutrons, iron-56 has 26p/30n, and gold-197 has 79p/
> 118n. So we have to gang up the reactions, say
>
> 56 atoms of O-18 -> 17 atoms of Fe-56 + 6p + 50n
>
> and then use beta decay to make the extra nucleons into one more
> Fe-56. Something similar for gold-197, though I haven't worked out
> the numbers yet. So the Goose is going to be emitting electrons and
> antineutrinos? This goose was generating up to 45.8 gm of gold a day,
> or almost a quarter mole -- that's about 1.4E+23 atoms of gold
> produced. Every day. So that's a lot of electrons being emitted. The
> poor thing should have static electricity from its entire body, maybe
> enough to electrocute itself.
The reaction from O18 all the way to Au197 requires a net increase in
neutron pro****tion, from 5/9 to 118/197, an increase of 0.043.
Presumably the goose is converting protons to neutrons by combining them
with its own electrons. (And emitting neutrinos?)
--
Richard Kennaway
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