the new fuels with magnecular structure - Institute for Basic Research

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analysts Louis A. Dee, Branch Manager, and Norman Wade who operated an
HP GC model 5890, an HP MS model 5972, equipped with an HP IRD model
5965. Upon inspection at arrival, the instrument met all conditions indicated in
the preceding sections then, and only then, measurements were permitted.
Thanks to a professional cooperation by the NTS analysts, the equipment was
set at all the unusual conditions indicated later on. In particular, the equipment
was set for the analytic method VOC IRMS.M utilizing an HP Ultra 2 column 25
m long with a 0.32 mm ID and a film thickness of 0.52 µm. It was also requested
to conduct the analysis from 40 a.m.u. to the instrument limit of 500 a.m.u.
This condition was necessary to avoid the expected large CO peak of magnegas
at 28 a.m.u.
Moreover, the GC-MS/IRD was set at the low temperature of 10 ◦ C; the biggest
possible feeding line with an ID of 0.5 mm was installed; the feeding line itself was
cryogenically cooled; the equipment was set at the longest possible ramp time of
26 minutes; and a linear flow velocity of 50 cm/sec was selected. A number of
other technical requirements are available in the complete documentation of the
measurements.
The analysts first secured a documentation of the background of the instrument
prior to any injection of magnegas (also called blank). Following a final control
that all requested conditions were implemented, the tests were initiated. The
results, reported in part via the representative scans of Figs. 21 to 26, constitute
the first direct experimental evidence of the existence of magnecules in gases.
After waiting for 26 minutes, sixteen large peaks appeared on the MS screen
between 40 and 500 a.m.u. as shown in Fig. 21. Each of these sixteen MS peaks
resulted to be “unknown,” following a computer search of database on all known
molecules available at McClellan Air Force Base, as illustrated in Fig. 22 No
identifiable CO 2 peak was detected at all in the MS spectrum between 40 and
500 a.m.u., contrary to the presence of 9% of such a molecule in magnegas as per
conventional analyses (4.11).
Upon the completion of the MS measurements, exactly the same range of 40
to 500 a.m.u. was subjected to IR detection. As expected, none of the sixteen
peaks had any infrared signature at all, as shown in Fig. 23. Furthermore, the
IR scan for these MS peaks shows only one peak, that belonging to CO 2 , with
additional small peaks possibly denoting traces of other substances.
Note that the IR signature of the other components, such as CO or O 2 cannot
be detectable in this IR test because their atomic weights are below the left