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- From: mvp@netcom.com (Mike Van Pelt)
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- Subject: Re: H2O2
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.225331.23740@netcom.com>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 22:53:31 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.205252.14134@rtf <1993Jan24.044854.13176@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1993Jan25.134757.20334@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
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- In article <1993Jan25.134757.20334@ryn.mro4.dec.com> pierson@empror.enet.dec.com (dave pierson) writes:
- > Hydrogen Peroxide was used in the Walther cycle engines in the some of
- > the torpedoes and the Me 163 Komet. (there were hot cycle and cold
- > cycle and a can't recall the fuel for hot cycle. Cold cycle used the
- > concentrated H2O2, with just a catalyst to make steam. Hot cycle used
- > the O2 from cold cycle as an oxidizer, with an added fuel, maybe
- > methanol....) Cold cycle was used in DFS194 (Me163 test bed), with
- > Hot cycle used in Me163 proper.
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- According to someone at "Making Orbit", the Me163 (or was it Me263?) used
- H202 as one component, and the other component was a mixture of hydrazine
- hydrate, methanol, and potassium cuprocyanide. It was hypergolic.
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