yep, the liquid boils of fast, but the GOX once having saturated the
porous material stays in the material for surprising long time and
therefore makes it a flammable or even an explosive material.
That's why I always force my students to wear non porous clothes/aprons
etc when handling LOX (Along with other stuff like insulated non porous
gloves, face shields, non synthetic clothes underneath the apron to
avoid electrostatic discharges and in the event of fire the molten
plastics does not burn itself through the skin etc)
Bruno
Am 23.04.23 um 10:45 schrieb roxanna Mason:
LOX on decayed tree matter should cause a nice fire?
The liquid rapidly boils off leaving only gas, and frozen organic matter isn't very porous so minimal fire risk once the liquid is gone
plus this was war.
Yes, I love those old models, pretty accurate reproductions. The US copied the design in the Redstone
and Jupiter C launchers.
Ken
On Sun, Apr 23, 2023 at 12:42 AM Uwe Klein <uwe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Am 23.04.23 um 02:55 schrieb roxanna Mason:
> , but they couldn't find the
> truck-convoy V-2 launch teams.)
>
> In reading the V-2 book by Dornburger, he said they would spray the
> forest floor with LOx to freeze the ground so it would stand the
weight
> of a loaded V-2 and launch pedestal.
remembering my Revell model set :-)
that was an "inverted aerospike" / tip upside concave cone
and some supports at the guide vane tip diameter.
LOX on decayed tree matter should cause a nice fire?
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