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- From: aankrom@nyx.cs.du.edu (Anthony Ankrom)
- Subject: Re: H2O2
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.044854.13176@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 04:48:54 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.003009.16321@cs.rochester.edu> dietz@cs.rochester.e
- u (Paul Dietz) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan20.205252.14134@rtfm.mlb.fl.us> luckey@rtfm.mlb.fl.us
- (Jon Luckey) writes:
- >
- >> But once you get your 30% H2O2 what good is it for pyrotechnics?
- >> I wouldn't think you could use it as rocket fuel just by spraying
- >> it on a platinum catalyst.
- >
- >Hydrogen peroxide boils at 150 C, so you can concentrate it by
- >distillation (probably under a partial vacuum). You can
- >catalyze its decomposition with silver, platinum group
- >elements, or permangenate (the Germans during WWII mixed
- >peroxide and sodium or calcium permangenate solutions in
- >the thrust chamber).
- >
- >You can also use peroxide in hybrid rockets, or bipropellant
- >rockets. Being storable at room temperature, it is easier
- >to pressurize than LOX (which makes steel tanks brittle
- >and freezes valves).
- >
- > Paul
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- Speaking of German rockets. The V2's used hydrazine and H2O2...
-
- St. Anthony
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