[AR] Re: SpaceX failure update
- From: Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 16:15:59 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 17 Oct 2016, Uwe Klein wrote:
About the only materials that really, truly cannot burn (in air) are
things that are already fully oxidized ... Unfortunately, they
generally aren't good structural materials...
asbestos?
Asbestos is fibers of a few specific silicates. By itself, you can weave
cloth out of it (should you be suicidally inclined :-) ) but it's not a
structural material. Embed the fibers in a matrix material to make a
composite and it has some structural strength, but what material do you
use as the matrix?
Henry
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