[AR] Re: methane to methanol
- From: Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Arocket List <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2017 16:25:18 -0400 (EDT)
On Thu, 1 Jun 2017, William Claybaugh wrote:
That said, I imagine nobody would object to a 1200 sec. ISP mono
propellant....
Well, nobody except the explosives regulators, anyway! :-)
"Since practical monopropellants of relatively high specific impulse are,
no doubt, much more hazardous than [nitromethane], there is serious doubt
that the term 'monopropellant' is really more than an optimistic
rocketryman's terminology for a dangerous liquid high explosive." -- M.A.
Cook, in Vance & Duke, "Applied Cryogenic Engineering", 1962.
Henry
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