Mutability property:

making matter temporarily disappearing & permanent mutation.

Experiment components:

a) Metal bars.

Aluminum, 2 bars, same size. L 60 cm, W 3 cm, H 3 cm

Iron, 1 bars. L 3 mm, W 3 cm, H 3 cm

b) Scale.

It has to weights grams.

c) Copper bench.

It is used to hold the three metal bars while heated.

The top has to be built using a 2 by 2 copper bar.

It’s made of 13 hocks equal on size and perfectly leveled, placed every 8 cm (or every 10 cm from their center).

The hocks measures are:

from outside: high 24cm base 7 cm, tooth 4 cm.

from inside: high 22 cm, base 3 cm, tooth 2 cm.

The two half have to be soldered together living a space of 2.4 cm, to allow heat to directly reach the aluminum bars. The overlapping of the metal bars over it can’t be higher of 3 mm on each side.

The length of the top bar is of 135cm

The top arch gets soldered to it. The structure has to hold the aluminum bars while heated without bending or waving.

The legs have to be adjustable, to make possible to regulate the distance between the three metal bars and the burners.

d) Gas burner device.

The device consists of 12 burners connected to a central gas source.

They are assembled keeping a distance of 10 cm from their center (a).

It will be placed under the bench, at its center, with the burners centrally aligned with the 12 gaps. The device has to be adjusted to heat the aluminum bars to a temperature of 800° C.

The heating process lasts 13.5 minutes.

The iron bar it is positioned between the aluminum bars in the very middle of the 7^th tooth. It can’t be directly reached by the flames, which have to be kept to a distance of 2 cm from its center.

After having adjusted the burners to produce the required temperature, has to be regulated their distance with the aluminum bars (b 1-2), in order to distribute on their surface a flame of 6 cm of diameter (5.4cm coming out of the gaps), living an empty area of 2 linear cm on each side.

Each burner has to be regulated to perform this sequence, before starting the experiment.

The 12 gaps on the bench, centrally aligned with the 12 burners, by letting the flames flowing out, will stabilize their area of distribution over the aluminum bars, and keep the distance from the iron bar, all time long (b2).

*** The fuel gas flow / aluminum bars-burners distance, and gaps-burners / aluminum bars-burners central alignment, have to be regulated before starting the experiment.

e) Aluminum guide for the burner device

It has to be placed under the bench, and adjusted to align at their center, the gaps-burners / aluminum bars-burners, before starting the experiment.

To prevent the flames reaching the iron bar, the burner device has to be turned on before being placed under the bench.

The guide will make possible to have an accurate central alignment of the components.

f) Tools.

3 holding tools. To hold and move the bars, from place to place, after having heated them.

Experiment’s procedure:

Take the small iron bar,

weight it,

then effortlessly place it on the bench,

between the aluminum bars, in the very middle of the 7^th tooth, set them smoothly together with their sides in contact and form one single bar, overlapping the empty space of 2.4cm, 3mm for each side.

At that moment, the body has to rest for quite long time: 72 hours (three days),

Past this time, at any moment the heating process may start. (to prevent motion/deleting of memories the bars, the bench can’t be touched or moved, until the iron bar gets weighted again.)

Turn on the gas burner device; place it inside the guide,

very slowly push it to set position under the bench, and heat the aluminum bars to a temperature of 800°C for 13.5 minutes. While placing it under the bench, the fact that will make you sure everything has been regulated in detail (*** d, previous chapter ), is given by the side flow of the flames, precisely setting between the edges of the gaps, within a segment of 5.4cm at the base, first in the front then in the back.

The aluminum bars don’t melt, they have become iron.

By the side, experiment: melting iron before aluminum. Follow the same procedure until the heating process, and then the heating temperature over the aluminum bars has to be gradually increased till reaching 1200°. Crossing 660° they won’t melt. At 1200° first will melt the iron bar then simultaneously the two aluminum bars.

Past 13.5 minutes, when the thermal process has been completed,

as soon as the aluminum bars have been pulled back separating them from the iron bar, turning off the burner device, and take it (iron bar) with the holding toll,

this part of the experiment should be a single sharp action, and lasts as little as possible. To not interfering with the cooling process, the iron tool used to take the bar on the scale should have on its areas of contact a temperature of 800°C.

place it (as soon as possible) on the scale and weight it again. .

After having placed it on the scale you will see that, it does not get even with the weights, it remains above them. (1) The iron bar weights less; parts of its mass, has just disappeared during the thermal process. Then with time, while the iron bar decreases its temperature, matter “regenerates” itself, and gets even with the weights. (2-3)

Once the contraction has been completed, and the bars have cooled, by controlling their sizes, emerge the fact that all of them have been affected by this process, which has caused to the iron bar to permanently remaining with its length increased and to the aluminum bars, to permanently remaining with their length reduced. Their color have also changed: the iron bar got clearer, the aluminum bars got darker.

The experiment has been structured within these parameters, in order to have the loss of matter being in grams, and the experiment working every time you perform it.

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