Originally Posted by
Jean Mareche
Hello,
Usually ion pumps électrodes are made of metals like titanium which are able to react with most ions such oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, argon. Aluminium is not always very efficient for ionic implantation which is the pumping mechanism for noble gases. Fullerene is curious in an ionic pump as it can be distilled in very high vacuum (I did it for purification purposes and also to grow crystals in collaboration with a russian team). If you suspect the presence of fullerenes you can extract with a few toluene, they are fairly soluble in this solvent, around one gram per liter. One gives a yellow color, the other purple, I dont remember which. Have you some advertising on such pumps? I know people dissolve some C60 in olive oil, which is very long, and put it in mouth.
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