Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (Rutgers University Press Classics)

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We normally expect poets not to have another publication until at least 12 months after their pamphlet has been published.

You can watch the online launch of these pamphlets and previous launches at the bottom of this page or on our YouTube channel. Most of us lack any understanding of the fact that its development was the result of a whole lot of hard scientific work, and that work required brilliance (and bravery) and had many frustrating dead ends. Second, you owe me a new bomb, a new Wianco pickup, a new stirrer, and maybe a few more things I’ll think of later.Carefully prep the tank with Fluorine to produce an oxide film on the surface and it could contain Chlorine Trifluoride. If boron could be tamed as a rocket fuel additive, that would be very useful to present day space launches. You'll find plenty about John and all the other sky-high crackpots who were in the field with him and you may even get (as I did) a glimpse of the heroic excitement that seemed to make it reasonable to cuddle with death every waking moment--to say nothing of learning a heck of a lot about the way in which the business of science is really conducted. The book uses a bit of inorganic chemistry to explain what happens, but nothing that someone that did chemistry to the British O level (taken at 16) 50 years ago cannot follow. I delayed listening to this for a long time because of other reviews as i have no scientific education (just a layman Spaceflight fan) and was worried it may be a textbook more than a narrative.

The editors of your full-length collection are also likely to want to know where and when previous versions of your poems have been published.Q. I've already published a chapbook, pamphlet, or book-length collection elsewhere - can I still submit? The equilibrium oxygen pressure over 100 percent acid at zero ullage (no appreciable unfilled volume in the tank) at 1600 F turned out to be well over 70 atmospheres. In audiobook format, it should many of the complaints - poor scanning and the like - that going the print book. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. A. Up to now, the press has acted on recommendations and scouted for poets, looking through magazines, awards and competitions (including our own international poetry competition).

It reads almost like the biography of a rocket scientist (although it is much wider ranging than that and i found it entertaining and had a few laughs. So, both readers with and without a science background will appreciate the book's unique and engaging storytelling style.

But don't let the fun novel-like writing style fool you, this book is no less rigorous than the best Physics textbooks out there. I don’t know about the rest of you but just the name Red Fuming Nitric Acid has about the same sense of safety as Angry Penis Eating Spider, I guess rocket chemists had to be a little crazy. Hace tiempo que tenía ganas de tenerlo, pues allá donde se mencionara como referencia, todos coincidían en tratarse de un libro tanto con información avanzada difícil de recopilar por separado, sin ser exigente en tener que ser un experto en la materia para entenderlo, a la par que lleno de anécdotas descabelladas, y ser tremendamente divertido de leer! The combination is hypergolic; that is, the two spontaneously ignite and burn upon contact with each other. ISAAC ASIMOV (1920 - 1992) was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books.

A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel-driven civilization. The actual process of discovering exactly what materials to use and how precisely to make them work in a rocket motor was the very essence of the phrase “the devil is in the details. By the time a cask of it split open and the stuff ate through several feet of a concrete floor and the gravel below, they had several tank cars of the stuff to deal with. 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. For every potential solution, there was a mountain of dead-end possibilities that tantalizingly, infuriatingly, almost worked.Tuve suerte, pues tras el susto, volvieron a estar disponibles 3 ejemplares, y decidí no perder la ocasión otra vez.