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John Clark goes into detail in his book Ignition! about why smaller, lighter exhaust molecules are much better than larger and heavier ones.
by black6 4y ago
John Clark goes into detail in his book Ignition! about why smaller, lighter exhaust molecules are much better than larger and heavier ones.
- btilly 4y agoJohn Clark also was the one who proposed adding mercury. It was a joke, that the military types didn't realize was a joke. Read https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pd... pages 193-196 in the PDF for the full story.
- sitkack 4y agoOne has to be really really careful when cracking these kinds of jokes, one really has to weigh the downside of it being taken seriously. I'll still do it, on an ephemeral medium, and then spoil it seconds later. That is only way it can be delivered.
- greesil 4y agoI leaned this from a text book in class. Please ask be about the adiabatic flame temperature.