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Article #6600Re: Aluminum as rocket fuel?
From: Nick Janow
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 06:56
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 06:56
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roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts) writes: > For final injection, it occurs to me that using gaseous oxygen to "blow" > the powdered aluminum in might be an option. That might work. The aluminum could be formed as microfine droplets, and then coated with another material to protect it from the oxygen until it reaches the high-temperature reaction area. What are the problems with using molten aluminum sprayed into the reaction area? Keeping the aluminum molten in a vacuum should be relatively easy. -- Nick_Janow@mindlink.bc.ca
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Newsgroups: sci.space Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!rsoft!mindlink!a684 From: Nick_Janow@mindlink.bc.ca (Nick Janow) Subject: Re: Aluminum as rocket fuel? Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 06:56:04 GMT Message-ID: <19016@mindlink.bc.ca> Sender: news@deep.rsoft.bc.ca (Usenet) Lines: 15