[AR] Re: Mythbusters panel at Comicon mentioned a "myth" I've heard in "r...
- From: Paul Mueller <paul.mueller.iii@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 14:02:20 -0600
In my cryogenics training years ago, I was told that LOX spilled on asphalt
would create a gel that was very impact sensitive. I don't know if it's
true or not.
Paul M
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Norman Yarvin <yarvin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 04:01:03PM -0400, JMKrell@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19740002978.pdf
>
> I just got around to reading that. It answers a question I'd had for
> a while, which is: how is it that you get enough intermixture between
> asphalt and LOX to actually have a serious explosion? It's easy to
> see how, say, leather gets impregnated with LOX, or how charcoal does,
> both of them being quite porous, but asphalt?
>
> Answer #1: use old asphalt. Old asphalt has cracks in it, greatly
> increasing its surface area. (They didn't get nearly as much action
> out of new asphalt.)
>
> Answer #2: whack it more than once. The first whack produces cracks
> in the asphalt, the surface of which has lost its normal flexibility
> by being supercooled by LOX, and the second whack sets the business
> off. Or maybe crack it by driving over it, and then whack it with
> something to set it off.
>
>
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>
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