ORMUS Iridium

David Hudson described this kind of thing happening, while he was doing thermo-gravimetric analyses (TGA), in several of his lectures. David Hudson's references and the TGA disappearance probably were all related to the white powder of iridium. See the figures from his patent at:

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/patents/figures.htm

Notice that in the TGA figures 8-17 there is the following legend in the upper left corner of each heating and cooling cycle chart--IRIH for IRIdium Heating and IRIC for IRIdium Cooling. Also notice that in his patent he only describes doing the TGA on the m-iridium. He does not make any claim that the m-gold has these same properties.

A scientist named August replicated some of Hudson's experiments with m-iridium in a Perkin Elmer TGA7 Thermogravimetric Analyzer at a major university in 2002. He made this m-iridium from metal using Hudson's patented method. First he "annealed" his m-iridium in a Lindberg/Blue tube furnace. For a picture of one of these tube furnaces see:

http://www.pacificcombustion.net/manufacturer/images/lindberg/TubeFurnace.jpg

Then he used the TGA to measure weight changes as described in Hudson's patent. You can see an image of the TGA setup he used at:

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/tga.jpg

Here is his description of the TGA process he used on the m-iridium:

"Our PerkinElmer TGA-7 was able to show that there are unusual transition states during long term annealing under hydrogen and argon, indicating that the atom can be excited to strong diamagnetic states. In fact strong enough to produce results indicating that the sample had lost 200% of its starting weight. Obviously the device is not calibrated to deal with this kind of field event. In the screen capture from the 24, 25 and 26th thermal cycle, after an initial induction period, the material acquiesces into a regular thermal pattern, well below the original sample starting weight."

He sent me an image of the screen showing this thermal pattern described above and I have uploaded it to:

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/wtchange.jpg

August also made some "gold glass". You can see a picture of it here:

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/transparentgold.jpg

As far as I know, the gold glass did not exhibit any superconductive effects.

He said that the m-gold powder was weakly diamagnetic and became more so as it approached ambient temperature in SQUID testing. In another form it was significantly attracted to magnetic fields.

This diamagnetism was not strong enough to levitate the white powder visibly away from a magnet like the grey powder levitated away from the magnet in my video of the m-gold Jim made using ozone.

Here is the link to a scanning electron microscope image of August's white powder:

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/image24.jpg

He described this image thus:

"What you are seeing are bound state spheres of monatomic gold regions electrostatically bound into the beautiful material that it is....."

August told me that the white powder of iridium jumped away from his hand in a way which suggested an electrostatic response. August sent me a short video of the "annealed" white powder of iridium first attracting to his hand and then being repelled from his hand. August says that this looks like a static electricity effect but cannot rule out the possibility that it might be a Meissner effect. This matches Hudson's description of the behavior of his m-iridium. Hudson did not provide any evidence that this could happen with gold. You can watch a short video of this effect to:

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/StaticIridium.wmv

I have some ORMUS iridium that I got from rawfood.com a year or so ago. When I put this m-iridium in a petrie dish it also exhibits a similar static electric effect of moving away from the petrie dish when I rub it with my finger. Here is a picture of this product:

http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/m-iridium.jpg

I do not know how this product was made.

Above I quoted August as saying that he ran the TGA on the m-iridium and measured a 200% decrease in the weight of his sample after "annealing" it using over twenty "annealing" cycles in the tube furnace. He could not say what the cause of the weight changes was but speculated that it might be some kind of Meissner effect from the m-iridium.

 August is a professional scientist and does not confuse speculation with fact. He did note that at a certain point he could no longer see the m-iridium sample in the TGA but he could not say whether it became transparent, went into an invisible gas state or went elsewhere.

You can find a picture of the "annealed" m-rhodium, m-iridium and m-gold that August made at:

 http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/white-m-powder.jpg

You can see pictures of his gold solution at various stages of his process at:

 http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/gold_transformation.jpg

 David Hudson and August have both said that the "annealed" m-iridium powder quits jumping away from your hand after a week or two. If the jumping is a static electricity effect this would make sense since the super dry powder would be more responsive to static electricity while it is very dry out of the tube furnace and would become less responsive to static electric effects as it gained moisture from the atmosphere.

I made a video of a powder that Jim made from gold which levitates away from a magnetic field. This behavior is a much better match to a postulated superconductive levitation effect than that of Hudson's m-iridium but it is not conclusive evidence of superconductivity either.