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- From: locklin@titan.ucs.umass.edu (SCOTT C LOCKLIN)
- Subject: Alchemy/Elements/Chickens
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:07:13 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.172632.25904@ohm.york.ac.uk> jkn@ohm.york.ac.uk (John Nicoll) writes:
- >On the general subject of transmutation of elements:
- >Wasn't there a (French, I think) experimentor who
- >(relatively recently) has made claims that living
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- Kevran or Kervan I think. I have the reference kicking about somewhere. Bother
- me by e-mail and I will find it for you.
- Apparently the chickens were getting special low-calcium diets, but received
- lots of potassium (which is only one proton & one electron difference on the
- average). The weight of the calcium in the chicken bones & chicken eggs was
- supposed to be much less than the calcium that was available to the chicken.
- I have never read the actual article (supposedly the experiment won some
- awards in japan; a dubious honor that is not easily checked. The same source
- alledged that this work was nominated for the nobel prize.)
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- >organisms can transmutate such? Specifically, from
- >what I remember, he fed chickens carefully controlled
- >diets containing insufficient amounts of calcium
- >to produce eggshells. The implications of the
- >`research' was that the chickens could (and did)
- >turn an allied element into the required calcium.
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- I dunno much about alkali metal chemistry, but I am of the opinion that the
- potassium could form some compounds similar to the calcium compounds in
- eggshells. There are other possible problems with the thesis as well (energy
- conservation for example).
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- I should probobly read the paper before passing judgement, but this info
- has been around for at least 10 years (possible more like 30), so if there
- were anything to it, I would imagine that there would have been a followup.
-
- -Scott
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