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- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!rsoft!mindlink!a684
- From: Nick_Janow@mindlink.bc.ca (Nick Janow)
- Subject: Re: Aluminum as rocket fuel?
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 06:56:04 GMT
- Message-ID: <19016@mindlink.bc.ca>
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- roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts) writes:
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- > For final injection, it occurs to me that using gaseous oxygen to "blow"
- > the powdered aluminum in might be an option.
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- That might work. The aluminum could be formed as microfine droplets, and
- then coated with another material to protect it from the oxygen until it
- reaches the high-temperature reaction area.
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- What are the problems with using molten aluminum sprayed into the reaction
- area? Keeping the aluminum molten in a vacuum should be relatively easy.
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