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RE: ECCO - Silver maker or accumulator?
The silver grain does not look like something that was formed in place. It looks too big to have been plausibly formed by transmutation. Transmutation normally occurs on a surface in small, low volume patches. It looks like a contaminant particle, that was moved in the electrochemical field and attached itself to the Ni foil being plated. Plating solutions can end up with "fines" in the bath and a cloth bag is commonly put around the anode to keep fines from the anode from entering the solution. It is probably a contaminant fine from the source of the electroplating solution or a fine from some previous electroplating operation.
It is an interesting hypothesis, one that needs to be discussed with Suhas since the purpose of the apparatus is not standard plating and the deposition process is very different from standard plating. This sample was singled out in this second session as it was not on a globular feature like the other precious metals and Copper, Zinc etc. that were seen in the first round of testing.
It will be interesting to see if we can get a sample silver feature tested with SIMS since in the case of Adamenko's work, the transmuted metals almost always did not have naturally occurring isotope ratios. If the isotope ratio is significantly off for ECCO foil silver features, then one might have a better argument to support it being made rather than accumulated.
Particle size is WAY too big for transmutation, 90+% conversion of something app. 6 e(-18) cm^3- at essentially the same time?
Probability is way down there near zero...
I'd also assume your plating solutions are industrial purity, which is only around the low-to-mid 90%. Some of the typical contaminants might prove to actually aid in reactivity, or supply some other benefit- or exactly the opposite, poisoning the surface or grain structure, etc. I should have called you on the "pure Ni foil" from the first, it's going to be high-purity, obviously, but not close to 99+ %, with this kind of process.
I think that the SIMS on the foil will be the big tell about what maybe going on.
With Adamenko, the isotopic ratios were not natural - in addition to the creation of non-periodic table elements.
Since it would appear that basically the same process is going on here in the foil producing process with similar output products (albeit we do not have the specifics from Adamenko for the combinations in this embodiment) - it could be that we see some strange data out of SIMS
With a unit in hand, each of the possible challenges can be addressed. We'd like to have that opportunity.