Assaying ORMUS
by
Barry Carter
Created: September 23, 2005
Modified: January 25, 2010
David Hudson claimed that the evidence that
his product is a superconductor was that the purified and super annealed form of it would levitate away from
his hands when he brought them near the powder. He stated that only the S-ORME gold and iridium would do
this.
This phenomenon sounds more like electrostatic repulsion, which happens to ordinary non-superconductive
materials, than diamagnetic levitation which happens to superconductors.
Regardless of whether this is indicative of electrostatic repulsion or superconductivity, the difficulty,
secrecy and expense of the annealing process that Hudsonused has been a significant
barrier to its replication by other researchers.
Hudson also claimed (in some of his lectures) that he could put energy into these materials through induction
but that they were not superconductors in the ordinary sense of the term; i.e. they would not conduct current
when placed between two electrodes. To my knowledge, Hudsonnever provided any evidence
to support this claim.
Before either of us had heard of David Hudson my friend Jim described his experiences with "fly ash" which
exhibited electrostatic levitation properties quite similar to the S-ORME materials that
Hudsondescribed.
Thus these reported observations of David Hudson and Jim may or may not be indicators of superconductivity.
The magnetic levitation video that I made of some of Jim's ORMUS gold levitating away from a magnetic field is
much more consistent with the magnetic levitation effect of a superconductor but no one else has replicated
this.
David Hudson also claimed in his patent that Cooper pairing (presumed to be a prerequisite for
superconductivity) was responsible for the spectroscopic invisibility of the ORME elements. In his patent you
can find the following passage describing this effect:
"Attempting to quantify the number of electrons remaining
in an ORME is extremely difficult due to the electrons lost to oxidation, thermal treatment, and the
inability, except from theory, to quantify electron pairs using electron quanta. It is
established, however, that the ORME does not have valence electrons available for standard
spectroscopic analysis such as atomic absorption, emission spectroscopy or inductively coupled plasma
spectroscopy. Moreover, x-ray fluorescence or x-ray diffraction spectrometry will not respond
the same as they do with T-metals in standard analysis. The existence of an ORME, while not
directly identifiable by the aforesaid standard analyses, can be characterized by infrared (IR)
spectra by a doublet which represents the bonding energy of the electron pairs within the ORME."
This property, which Hudsondescribed, offers the
most promise as a unique identifier for the ORMUS form of the transition elements.
Two or three ORMUS researchers have reported that the ocean water precipitate has a major component which is
spectroscopically invisible (30-40%). This identification method basically takes a
sample and divides it into two equal parts. One part is dried and weighed and the other part is sent for
quantitative spectroscopic assay. After accounting for cations and anions the
difference is the spectroscopically invisible portion.
One can also compare the spectrographic signature of known ORMUS gold and sea water like August did in the
reports at:
http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/XRFM3Sea.htm
http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/xrfongold.htm
Spectroscopic invisibility, while it is probably an indicator of superconductor related properties, may not
correlate well with other superconductor properties like magnetic levitation for a variety of possible reasons.
I mentioned earlier that Hudsonsaid that only m-gold and
m-iridium would fully levitate. This would mean that this correlation does not apply to nine of the elements
that Hudsonclaimed were superconductors at room temperature.
Also, Jim noticed and described a phenomenon which might skew some superconductive behaviors. Jim claimed that
the ORMUS elements like to "hide out" in tight spaces. We speculate that this behavior happens because the
ORMUS elements have the Meissner effect which causes them to retreat from electromagnetic fields. I imagine
that this behavior would cause these elements to "hide out" inside molecules of other elements which might
provide some shielding from electromagnetic fields. This might mean that the ORMUS in sea water, the ORMUS in
the air and the ORMUS in rock source materials would not exhibit much response to electromagnetic fields and
would, in effect, be camouflaged by the molecules it is hiding within. Remember that
Hudsonsaid his material assayed as iron, silica or aluminum until he removed all traces of
these materials whereupon it assayed as "pure nothing".
In summary, it is important to specify which properties associated with superconductivity you are talking about
and why we suspect that these properties might be associated with the naturally occurring form of the ORMUS
materials.
For more info on this subject see the following links:
http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/what.htm
http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/superconductivity.htm
http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/boson.htm
http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/superfluid.htm
http://www.OrmusMinerals.com/shielding.htm