An inherent safety feature (for lack of a better term) of fluorine is that a
cold spill, like LOX is extremely unlikely. It will react and burn instantly,
not detonate later. Fire is better than a sudden DDT apparently. There’s plenty
of historical examples to cite in this regard, with both liquid and solid
propellants.
Anthony J. Cesaroni
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Subject: [AR] Re: Fluorine exposure... Combustion instability and injector
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I had a propulsion guy with experience in peroxide and nitrous explain to me
how LOX was super dangerous, and that if it was spilled on concrete it would
leak down and then explode when it came into contact with rusty rebar.
The challenge with discussions of propellants is that it's usually harder than
that to tell when people's biases are ignorant or illogical.
I'd like to do a fluorine rocket, I think it'd be an interesting project.
Ben
On Monday, January 4, 2016, Anthony Cesaroni <acesaroni@xxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:acesaroni@xxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote:
Former NASA administrator, Bill Bos (Von Braun team member) worked extensively
with it. He told me that they never really had any issues with it and that he
visited the plant where it was manufactured. According to him, the worst
accident they ever had there was an electrician fell off a ladder. It’s what
you’re used to I suppose. I believe I’ve told the story of when FMC was at our
plant conducting HTP training and how they were spooked about ammonium
perchlorate when someone walked by them in the lab with a drying tray full.
Anthony J. Cesaroni
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Cesaroni Technology/Cesaroni Aerospace
<http://www.cesaronitech.com/> http://www.cesaronitech.com/
(941) 360-3100 x101 Sarasota
(905) 887-2370 x222 Toronto
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Subject: [AR] Fluorine exposure... Combustion instability and injector patterns
There is if you use fluorine as an oxidizer with a solid gas generator. JustAnthony.
sayin.
