Indeed, sounds eerily analogous to nitrous oxide, different chemical, same
passion/mishaps/body count.
Ken
On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 6:59 PM Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Tue, 18 Apr 2023, roxanna Mason wrote:
Many of the early problems with both LOX and peroxide came from,
by modern standards, gross negligence on materials compatibility...
That's how the 'book' was written, through hard empirical data.
Alas, the result was a book about how to stay halfway safe while working
with contaminated oxidizers and materials bought at garage sales. :-)
The peroxide "book", in particular, never got revised to reflect the far
more favorable experiences of people who took a more thoughtful approach
from the start, like the Swedish torpedo builders and the British
peroxide-rocketry effort. So it's not wrong, exactly, but it's full of
elaborate, expensive overkill.
Henry