[AR] Re: Dimethyl sulfoxide as rocket fuel
- From: Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Arocket List <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2016 10:40:29 -0400 (EDT)
On Fri, 8 Jul 2016, Ben Brockert wrote:
Will scoop up water vapor and form sulfurous acid ( H2SO3 )
And yet, still probably better for the atmosphere than lighting a tire
on fire with laughing gas.
Also, don't forget that the chlorine in AP mostly ends up as hydrochloric
acid (HCl), so the exhaust plumes of most non-trivial solids are acidic.
(And if they're still burning at high altitude, the chlorine content is
bad for the ozone layer too. Not an issue for burns lower down, because
HCl is so reactive and so soluble in water that little or none makes it up
into the stratosphere. Just as well, since volcanos put out a lot of it.)
Henry
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