JJ
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I have been considering boron as a fuel,I have looked all over google but nothing worth reading!Has anybody had much experience with B?
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I have been considering boron as a fuel,I have looked all over google but nothing worth reading!Has anybody had much experience with B?
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First you need to come up with a strongly exothermic reaction involving boron. Are you trying to emit large volumes of gases (explosives/rockets)?
Boron isn't a great candidate for this.
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Yes it's for rockets and or exp. of the SCIENTIFIC type. I was told that
the Gov. did some work with it in the 50's and 60's with good results(as a turbo jet fuel).
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I've made boron and done some pyro with it. It makes a nice green with just about any comp, and is in my opinion safer then aluminum in flash
comps. Anyway, I believe that boron research was done with diborane and higher compounds and it was discontinued because the boric oxide produced
during the reaction highly abrasive to the rocket cones.
One thing though, and I mentioned this in the tread on obtaining boron from borax, if you want to reduce a boron compound, magnesium metal is the way
to go, aluminum results in high yields of aluminum boride which is almost impossible to separate from the boron thus formed.
POST NO. 100 !
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It's maybe a little late, but if you reacted magnesium boride with phosphoric acid, you would get borane gas, which is a hell of a rocket fuel.
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