On 3 Feb 2017 at 11:48, Douglas Pauls wrote: > My esteemed colleague refers to another of the half fractional elements, > Everreadium (Ev-2.5). Ev has three valence states. In the +2 valence > state, it acts a little like lithium. In the +4 state, it acts a little > like cadmium. In the +5 state, a little like lead. So you can see why > battery manufacturers first discovered the material. It is an important > industrial chemical because it is what fuels the Energizer bunny. Without > this important element, the marketing industry would be devastated. Ev > hydride, as Dave indicated, is an effective catalyst, though one that is > somewhat unstable. It is suspected in a few of the SpaceX launches that > have gone awry. Not to forget the mechanism of spontaneous Ev hydride formation which might be the REAL reason for the Note7 battery disaster... Best regards Matthias Mansfeld -- Matthias Mansfeld Elektronik * Printed Circuit Board Design and Assembly Neithardtstr. 3, D-85540 Haar, GERMANY Phone: +49-89-4620 0937, Fax: +49-89-4620 0938 Internet: http://www.mansfeld-elektronik.de OpenPGP: http://www.mansfeld-elektronik.de/gnupgkey/mansfeld.asc Fingerprint: 6563 057D E6B8 9105 1CE4 18D0 4056 1F54 8B59 40EF