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
Hudson used 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,
Hudson never 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
Hudson described.

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
Hudson described, 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://subtleenergies.xyz/ormus/tw/XRFM3Sea.htm
http://subtleenergies.xyz/ormus/tw/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
Hudson said 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 Hudson claimed 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
Hudson said 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://subtleenergies.xyz/ormus/tw/what.htm
http://subtleenergies.xyz/ormus/tw/superconductivity.htm
http://subtleenergies.xyz/ormus/tw/boson.htm
http://subtleenergies.xyz/ormus/tw/superfluid.htm
http://subtleenergies.xyz/ormus/tw/shielding.htm