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Not your line of thinking, but I believe ferrofluids were developed to provide control over fuel in zero-g (i.e. a material that is elastic and strong, but that
by musingsole 6y ago
Not your line of thinking, but I believe ferrofluids were developed to provide control over fuel in zero-g (i.e. a material that is elastic and strong, but that gets mixed with the fuel instead of encasing it)
- api 6y agoDoesn't it then get burned? Seems like it would deposit shit in the engine, which is bad especially for a reusable engine.
- musingsole 6y agoI believe it's meant to be fully filtered out of the fuel before burning (being magnetic, I think the filtering is a bit easier than some other non-reactive contaminate would be). Most of this is only half-recalled from someone's recent project that showed separating ferrofluid from some liquid on Earth...but I don't recall any other context :/