New class of chemical compounds created

UPI ^ | 01/22/07

[sono]

Rockets? What about its use in automobiles, boats, and airplanes?

[from occupied ga]

novel nano-materials

Nano-materials - buzz word word for useless.

[joeystoy]

Buzz word for useless is sustainable.

[BreezyDog]

All I know is when you mix aluminum with any oxidizer you get a potent bang. Aluminum is the main ingredient in flash powder which is used to make firecrackers.

[AntiKev]

Solid-fueled planes, trains and automobiles...?

[oyez]

Didn't Mork for Ork often speak of Nanonano material?

I say that new complexes of common elements looms big. Silicon, Aluminum, Boron.

Then again why spend millions building and developing new molecules that are almost always rejected by environmentalists and safety kooks.

[Gorzaloon]

"It's always tough to predict how things will play out in the future, but our research finding is interesting enough for me to be willing to say that this synthesis may have the potential for some possibly very useful future applications, including the development of solid rocket fuel with more thrust," Bowen said.

I AM _TIRED_ of this BS!!!!

1: Aluminum hydride has been commercially availabel for decades.

2: Any powder-monkey knows that hydrolytically unstable materials are never used in propellants.

That is why coated aluminum is used in flashlight powders, NOT magnesium.

Damned funding pimps.

[from occupied ga]

Buzz word for useless is sustainable.

There are apparently several synonyms

[agere_contra]

The new aluminum-hydrogen molecules called "hydrides"

When was this written, the 1980s? 'Hydride' is about as cutting edge as the word 'Carbohydrate'

[Unmarked Package]

"All I know is when you mix aluminum with any oxidizer you get a potent bang. Aluminum is the main ingredient in flash powder which is used to make firecrackers."

You're quite right, aluminum is also the primary fuel in the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster engines. The SRB propellant is 16% (by weight) aluminum and 70% ammonium perchlorate oxidizer with 12% polymer binding agent and small amounts of iron oxide catalyst and epoxy curing agent.

These new compounds might be more efficient and have a higher thrust to weight ratio than propellants currently used. It's certainly worth more investigation.

The U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research funded Kit Bowen's research at John Hopkins.

[Warlord David]

Why not hydrogen plasma as a rocket fuel. More bang for your bucks. Cheap, clean, and less weight.

[A Strict Constructionist]

Call me when they synthesize Transparent Aluminum. I need a large fish tank.

[Celtic Conservative]

Call me when they synthesize Transparent Aluminum. I need a large fish tank.

Ahem...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparent_alumina

[A Strict Constructionist]

You correctniks always spoil my humor. Just kidding. I hadn't read about this and have forgotten almost all of my inorganic chem..

[MD_Willington_1976]

aluminium is added to explosives such as ANFO to increase brissance

[lowbridge]

New class of chemical compounds created

Great. Just what all High School students needed for science class.

[null and void]

What ratios?

(Just askin')...

[AnalogReigns]

Sounds like it ain't rocket surgery...

[Celtic Conservative]

Sorry about that. I've been told that my grasp of arcane and useless knowledge is irritating at times. I just recall that there were a few threads on FR that discussed this ad nauseaum. You've probably forgotten more inorganic chem than I've learned. Nice screen name, BTW

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