Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Spontaneous ignition discovery has ORNL researcher fired up





"In a paper scheduled to appear in the May 18 print issue of the American Chemical Society's Energy & Fuels, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Hu describes a novel method to achieve spontaneous ignition and sustained combustion at room temperature. He achieves this 'nano-catalytic reaction' with nothing but nanometer-sized particles of platinum stuck to fibers of glass wool in a small jar with methanol and air - with no source of external ignition."

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Cold fusion it ain't.
--WMB

Mac said...

Nope -- but I'll take it anyway.