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Clark has a gift for writing, and the book is easy to read and full of amusing (and eye-widening) anecdotes. Carefully prep the tank with Fluorine to produce an oxide film on the surface and it could contain Chlorine Trifluoride. However, it gets quite wonky in places and I occasionally felt like I needed considerably more organic chemistry knowledge to keep straight what was happening. We encourage you to read one or more of our pamphlets before submitting to get an idea about the kind of work we tend to publish and how our pamphlets look and feel. A classic work in the history of science, and described as â€œa good book on rocket stuff…that’s a really fun one” by SpaceX founder Elon Musk, readers will want to get their hands on this influential classic, available for the first time in decades.Then as O2 is essentially insoluble in nitric acid, it bubbles out of it and the pressure builds up and your acid turns red from the NO2. While we're accustomed to think of technological progress in terms of Moore's law, in a few short years these engineers went from launching metal tubes small enough to hold in your hand to propelling a two ton metal capsule containing three humans all the way to the moon. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses.

It is somewhat harder to explain how hordes of bats and the smell of skunks figure into the story, nor how the wholesale destruction of test equipment, limbs, and the occasional warehouse add humor. Even if your not super into chemistry, it’s written in a way that still makes a good story without needing to understand the details(but you also get the details if you want them:). Because by the end of the book, even for someone such as myself whose memory of Chemistry 101 is about as fresh as a tank of sludgy RFNA, the reader will have acquired some kind of the knowledge and sense these applied science heroes learned the hard way about rocket propellants, and likely some of same looney mentality towards horrifyingly unstable sounding compounds: "tetranitromethane? Clark - foreword by Issac Asimov Preface 1 How It Started 2 Peenemunde and JPL 3 The Hunting of the Hypergol .ignitionpress guarantees our poets at least one online launch and, depending on where you live, one in-person launch. The story on pp 28-29 is an absolute scream; “Howard Streim opened his mouth to protest, but as he said later, ‘I saw that dog-eating grin on Doc’s face and shut it again,…’ ” The final treatment of the table had me laughing hard enough to bring tears. Aniline was difficult to procure, ferociously poisonous and rapidly absorbed through skin, and froze at an inconvenient -6. You will get the full account of historical rocket science down to every relevant combustion equation.

These constraints often work against each other -- chemicals that react quickly often react badly with piping and human tissue. A classic work in the history of science, and described as "a good book on rocket stuff…that's a really fun one" by SpaceX founder Elon Musk, readers will want to get their hands on this influential classic, available for the first time in decades. There is some insight into rocket science and humor but I found it buried underneath continual lists of various chemicals with little context. ignitionpress has a recognisable cover design which we will be retaining for the foreseeable future.

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