I have a report somewhere on the stuff, greater density but that HF exhaust
is a killer.
"Ignition" by Clark should be required reading by any aspiring rocket
enthusiast and engineer.
How not to reinvent the square wheel.
K
On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 4:11 PM Terry McCreary <prfesser@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I don't know about that, Henry. Derek Lowe of "In the Pipeline" writes
this about dioxygen difluoride, better known as FOOF(!) and for good
reason... highlight is mine.
"So does anyone use dioxygen difluoride for anything? Not as far as I can
see. Most of the recent work with the stuff has come from groups at Los
Alamos, where it’s been used to prepare national-security substances such
as plutonium and neptunium hexafluoride. But I do note that if you run the
structure through SciFinder, it comes out with a most unexpected icon that
indicates a commercial supplier. That would be the Hangzhou Sage Chemical
Company. They offer it in 100g, 500g, and 1 kilo amounts, which is
interesting, because I don’t think a kilo of dioxygen difluoride has ever
existed. Someone should call them on this – ask for the free shipping, and
if they object, tell them Amazon offers it on this item. Serves ’em right.
Morons."
So call 'em up, can't hurt to try. :-D
Best -- Terry
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*Subject:* [AR] Re: Hybrid High Powered Rocket
On Sun, 14 Mar 2021, Dr Edward Jones wrote:
If LOx is good, wouldn't liquid ozone be better?
That gets you the worst of both worlds: it's cryo, *and* it's an
energetic monopropellant just waiting for an excuse to do a spectacular
solo performance. In the case of *clean* nitrous near room temperature,
the excuse at least has to be a good one -- the nitrous in the Scaled
Composites accident almost certainly had organic contamination -- but
ozone is less fussy. Much better if all the heats of formation are
negative until things mix in the chamber...
Oh, and you have to make it rather than buy it, because nobody in his
right mind will make it for you.
Henry