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- From: dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz)
- Subject: Re: H2O2
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.220757.16035@cs.rochester.edu>
- Organization: Computer Science Department University of Rochester
- References: <1993Jan20.205252.14134@rtfm.mlb.fl.us> <1993Jan21.003009.16321@cs.rochester.edu> <1993Jan21.152605.22932@ux1.cts.eiu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:07:57 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.152605.22932@ux1.cts.eiu.edu> cfthb@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Howard Black) writes:
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- >> Hydrogen peroxide boils at 150 C, so you can concentrate it by
- >> distillation (probably under a partial vacuum).
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- > You can also kill yourself doing this.
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- I thought that went without saying in this group. Oh well.
-
- Hot hydrogen peroxide can experience runaway decomposition or
- detonation, but I was thinking of vacuum distillation. I have in
- front of me the following quote from Sarner, "Propellant Chemistry":
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- "Hydrogen peroxide of 98-100% is immune to mechanical impact such as
- drop-weight or rifle-fire tests, and it does not appear possible to set up a
- self-propagating detonation through the action of blasting caps. Definite
- explosive effects have been noted only under the influence of powerful
- booster charges combined with a high degree of confinement."
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- Paul
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