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- From: pgf@srl03.cacs.usl.edu ("Phil G. Fraering")
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- Subject: Re: Aluminum as rocket fuel
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- Date: 4 Jan 93 03:21:12 GMT
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- \A note of caution: you're assuming that nitrogen is an inert gas. This
- /isn't necessarily true when hot metals are involved. I'm not sure about
- \aluminum, but I know titanium will burn fiercely in nitrogen (in fact,
- /the ash from titanium burning in air is about 80% titanium nitride).
- \Without an ignition source, the combination might be stable enough.
- /--
- \"God willing... we shall return." | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- / -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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- Titanium nitride... is that Ti N
- x y
- or something along the lines of Ti N O ?
- x y z
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- In short, is this something that will happen without oxygen whatsoever?
- --
- Phil Fraering
- "...drag them, kicking and screaming, into the Century of the Fruitbat."
- <<- Terry Pratchett, _Reaper Man_
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