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- From: buda@star.enet.dec.com (Mark A. Buda)
- Newsgroups: rec.pyrotechnics
- Subject: Re: Rocket Fuels
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.161159.1264@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 16:14:12 GMT
- Sender: usenet@nntpd.lkg.dec.com (USENET News System)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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- In article <EcPWrAiNBh107h@fulgor.UUCP>, janv@fulgor.UUCP (Jan Vermaak) writes...
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- >In my reading so far I have mostly encountered KNO3 + S + C as
- >the recipe for pyrotechnic rocket fuel.
- >I have unfortunately not had much success with this mixture for
- >some or other reason (possibly the degree of particle integration)
- >- it just doen't burn - merely fizzles along with major quantities
- >of residue.
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- KNO3/S/C is an excellent propellant. How are you ramming this into
- a tube?
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- - mark
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