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storing the acids and so
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Nitric acid (in garbage bag with some bicarbonate inside)[/quote]
That's a very bad idea. ...
10-1-2008 at 17:00
by: kilowatt
Sodium!
The bath will definitely attack normal glass; I have tried using glass in such a cell before. Lithi ...
7-1-2008 at 11:46
by: kilowatt
High Temperature Specialty Thermite
Wouldn't WO3 be too volatile?

Also is there a way this discussion may be moved to the exotic ther ...
28-11-2007 at 15:13
by: kilowatt
High Temperature Specialty Thermite
Does anyone think it would be possible (hypothetically, if you could find a suitable container) to m ...
27-11-2007 at 20:31
by: kilowatt
Problems with vacuum distilling HNO3
I had always been under the impression that a significant (at least 10%, even more) portion of HNO3 ...
16-11-2007 at 18:27
by: kilowatt
Gold Plating
The methods I mentioned are for gold sulfite, not sulfate. It seems my original post contained a mi ...
9-11-2007 at 15:42
by: kilowatt
Gold Plating
Your best options if you want a bright shiny non-porous finish would either be to buy a commercial g ...
8-11-2007 at 07:40
by: kilowatt
Sulfur Hexaflouride
I have wondered if it would be possible to electrolyze a bath of HF + KHF2, or any other fused fluor ...
3-11-2007 at 06:07
by: kilowatt
Distilling HCl
Yes, like I said, my attempt was not heated. Also, it was rock salt which is in large crystals. I ...
2-11-2007 at 00:16
by: kilowatt
High Energy Laminated Rocket Propellants
[quote]cryogenic fuel schemes have that much less latent
heat than a fuel at ambient temperature an ...
1-11-2007 at 00:15
by: kilowatt
High Energy Laminated Rocket Propellants
The air breathing augmenter is neat. With an aerospike nozzle, I can see the augmenter burning the ...
31-10-2007 at 06:23
by: kilowatt
Distilling HCl
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Concentrated (anhydrous) H2SO4 doesn't do much when it comes in contact with dry NaCl, been ...
30-10-2007 at 20:37
by: kilowatt
Distilling HCl
Concentrated (anhydrous) H2SO4 doesn't do much when it comes in contact with dry NaCl, been there do ...
30-10-2007 at 16:10
by: kilowatt
Distilling HCl
Once you have obtained your 20% HCl from the distillation, plus whatever else you have collected by ...
30-10-2007 at 09:20
by: kilowatt
High Energy Laminated Rocket Propellants
Yeah, that sounds like beryllium poisoning :(, I don't think you have to inhale much (doesn't matter ...
29-10-2007 at 14:29
by: kilowatt
High Energy Laminated Rocket Propellants
Lithium perchlorate might be a good one, would definitely have to be sealed though. I've made lithi ...
29-10-2007 at 08:30
by: kilowatt
Question about thermodynamics
Here's a phase diagram for NaCl/H2O.
[img]http://imartinez.etsin.upm.es/bk3/c07sol/Solution%20prop ...
28-10-2007 at 20:05
by: kilowatt
Nitric Acid Puzzler
Is the fact that overheating results in too high an NO2 content the problem here? I plan to go with ...
28-10-2007 at 19:56
by: kilowatt
Sodium!
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Working with NaCl is much more tricky I have found. For a start Na at that temperature atta ...
28-10-2007 at 19:51
by: kilowatt
High Energy Laminated Rocket Propellants
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Chemical considerations aside, a better way to isolate hypergolic propellant components mig ...
28-10-2007 at 19:27
by: kilowatt
High Energy Laminated Rocket Propellants
I discounted KMnO4 as a rocket oxidizer long ago, due mainly to its high exhaust mass and poor burn ...
28-10-2007 at 09:43
by: kilowatt
High Energy Laminated Rocket Propellants
With something like an alkali metal, a fibrous binder would be needed to keep it from running out at ...
28-10-2007 at 07:33
by: kilowatt
High Energy Laminated Rocket Propellants
What are you getting at?:P KMnO4 can never make a decent rocket propellant anyway as its byproducts ...
28-10-2007 at 07:19
by: kilowatt
High Energy Laminated Rocket Propellants
I have seen perfluorates mentioned in various internet sources, albeit scarsely. I guess now that I ...
28-10-2007 at 07:00
by: kilowatt
High Energy Laminated Rocket Propellants
Please keep in mind this is not meant to be a practical thing for rockets that are supposed to be ut ...
28-10-2007 at 03:05
by: kilowatt
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