VERIFICATION OF THE GEORGE-OSHAWA-EXPERIMENT FOR ANOMALOUS PRODUCTIONOF IRON FROM CARBON-ARC IN WATER

A direct current arc was run between ultrapture graphite electrodes di pped in ultrapure water for 1 to 20 h. The graphite residue collected at the bottom of the water trough was analyzed for iron content by a c onventional spectrographic method. It was found, in the first few expe riments, that the iron content in the graphite residue was fairly high , depending on the duration of the arcing. The experiment was repeated initially six times, and the results showed large variations in iron content [50 to 2000 parts per million (ppm)] in the carbon residue. In the second series of experiments, which were done with the water trou gh fully covered, the amount of iron in the carbon residue decreased s ignificantly (20 to 100 ppm). Here also there were large variations in the iron concentration in the residue, although the experiments were performed under identical conditions. Whether iron is really being syn thesized through transmutation from carbon and oxygen as suggested by George Oshawa or is getting concentrated to different degrees through some other phenomenon is not currently clear. The iron in the carbon r esidue was also analyzed mass spectrometrically for the abundance of i fs various isotopes, and the results were more or less the same as tha t of natural iron. Besides iron, the presence of other elements like s ilicon, nickel, aluminum, and chromium was also determined in the carb on residue, and it was found that the variation of their concentration s followed the same pattern as that of iron.