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- From: moroney@world.std.com (Michael Moroney)
- Subject: Re: Mysterious accelerant ???
- Message-ID: <C18In2.88E@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <UfKoNrS00Uh_A8GX56@andrew.cmu.edu> <1993Jan18.233443.1578@galaxy.gov.bc.ca> <1993Jan21.081917.26207@muddcs.claremont.edu> <1993Jan21.172653.29937@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 02:52:13 GMT
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- slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth "the Lesser") writes:
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- >ebrandt@jarthur.claremont.edu (Eli Brandt) writes:
- >>
- >>I bet you could do better than LOX/acetylene... LF2/LH2 might be
- >>a good candidate.
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- >How about LF2 and finely-powdered cesium?
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- Cesium is a rather heavy atom, so it would produce less energy per gram
- than lithium, even though cesium releases more energy per atom.
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- Besides, why powder cesium? Why not melt it? (it would melt in your
- hand if it didn't catch on fire and *burn* your hand first...)
-
- -Mike
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