Buried deep in this wonderful article is a little known hypergolic we tried to tame for a while, Chlorine Trifluoride. We didnt blow ourselves up with it, but succeeded in keeping Perkin-Elmer making gas chromatographs at breakneck speed. The damn stuff flowed in the columns just fine until it hit a bend where it promptly ate through the material and escaped into the lab, thus causing a mad dash to the exits. space.io9/the-insane-history-of-rockets-at-jpl-1554125227/1554543456/+robertsorokanich
Posted on: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 18:36:44 +0000