[AR] Re: Small Hydrogen Peroxide Rocket
- From: roxanna Mason <rocketmaster.ken@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2021 12:58:52 -0700
certain fatal nitrous accident was also partly the end result of
people carelessly thinking "well, it's not LOX, after all...".
In all fairness, that fatal accident in July 2007 happened during a cold
flow where no combustion was expected.
Two colleagues of mine,Al and Glenn, were present, Glenn died in Al's arms,
his chest ripped open with his still beating heart exposed.
Al was under cover but Glenn was not because it was only a cold flow.
RIP Glenn with God's Blessings,
Ken
On Sun, Jul 4, 2021 at 9:18 AM Henry Vanderbilt <hvanderbilt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On 7/3/2021 9:04 PM, Henry Spencer wrote:
On Sat, 3 Jul 2021, Matthew JL wrote:
I can back up some of this experience with my environmental
remediation background, hydrogen peroxide is _very_ easy to get
complacent around even at 30% concentration. Stringency of working
with LOX with the appearance of water.
I find myself wondering how much of the bad reputation (in some
quarters) of peroxide ultimately derives from people looking at it and
thinking -- perhaps without being very conscious of this -- "water"
rather than "room-temperature LOX"... and then suffering the
consequences of that terribly misleading line of thought.
"LOX cleanliness standards, and LOX consequences if you don't." --
Mitch Burnside Clapp, 1995.
In fact, now that I think about it, I wouldn't be surprised if a
certain fatal nitrous accident was also partly the end result of
people carelessly thinking "well, it's not LOX, after all...".
"Safe as mother's milk." Maybe not the best thing to say to inspire a
robust organizational strong-oxidizer safety culture.
Henry
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