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I just came across this fascinating book by John D. Clark on the history of rocket fuel development.
Not only is it a cracking good read, with a foreword by Isaac Asimov no less, but a kind of Who's Who of hellish chemicals not to touch with a bargepole. Luckily they don't sell chlorine pentafluoride and liquid ozone at Home Depot.
It's out of print and copies sell for over $500, but why not try your favourite file-sharing network...
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Whatever misgivings we may have about WW2, you have to admit that the LOX-ethanol V2s daily exported to England in 1944 were far more clean burning and environmentally friendly than some of the competing technology of the period, such as Visol/Nitric acid, which leaves an ecologically hazardous and totally vile red-brown vapour trail of mixed oxides of nitrogen behind it.
An environmentally friendly flying bomb seems to sum up the spirit of our age somehow, and I bet you'd get a research grant for it quicker than a rat slipping down a drain.
An American flying eco horror of the period used a solid propellant cast from ammonium perchlorate, road tar and heavy lubricating oil, which left a stream of hydrochloric acid behind it on good days, and on bad left a legacy of vast clouds of oily black partly-combusted tar smoke and HCl behind it when the ratio of fuel to oxidizing agent was bungled, as it often was.
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Steve McConner wrote ...
I just came across this fascinating book by John D. Clark on the history of rocket fuel development.
Not only is it a cracking good read, with a foreword by Isaac Asimov no less, but a kind of Who's Who of hellish chemicals not to touch with a bargepole. Luckily they don't sell chlorine pentafluoride and liquid ozone at Home Depot.
It's out of print and copies sell for over $500, but why not try your favourite file-sharing network...
Hi Steve, does it contain a fair amount of tabulated data? If it does i'm sure I have a copy knocking around in the shed somewhere. $500 - oh my!
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Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
