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I wonder if this Dioxygen Difluoride + Hydrogen Sulfide reaction could be harnessed as an ultra-dense fuel source for an internal combustion engine.
by neuroelectronic 17y ago
I wonder if this Dioxygen Difluoride + Hydrogen Sulfide reaction could be harnessed as an ultra-dense fuel source for an internal combustion engine.
- pwdfilelocked 17y ago- First the fuel source would need to be kept at -160C or so, which is difficult, and would be decidedly impressive upon failure. - Second, one of the reaction products is HF gas. If this doesn't mean anything to you, note that HF gas was the -first- substance covered in the "Things I won't work with" category. "And that soaks into tissue very readily, with the acid part doing its damage along the way, and the fluoride merrily poisoning enzymes and wreaking havoc."
- neuroelectronic 17y agoSounds like a win-win
- idlewords 17y agoNeither of those chemicals is particularly dense, and as a bonus HS is incredibly poisonous. Just so you have something to worry about in both propellant tanks. There are propellants that give you more zing per gram than a gasoline/air mixture, but the improvement is not that great. Gasoline is near the limit of energy density for practical chemical fuels - see http://physics.info/energy-chemical/ http://physics.info/energy-chemical/