Timeline for How is combustion speed regulated in solid propellants?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:57 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jul 3, 2016 at 15:50 | comment | added | SF. | ...also, this is the question people on Space Exploration SE site were unable to answer. This is related to "Electric solid fuels" which are not only plastisols, and conductive, but "tuned" to the brink of combustibility - self-extinguishing, but only barely so; so that passing high-voltage current the extra energy makes them sustain combustion; remove electric power, they stop. I don't believe the inventors just happened upon a substance that has these properties by blind trial and error. | |
| Jul 3, 2016 at 15:17 | comment | added | SF. | I did my homework, reading up everything Wikipedia had to say on the subject of both solid fuels and explosives; the cross-links between the two articles are near to non-existent, even though the same substances are mentioned. Pages for the substances that appear on both don't give any detail on solid fuel applications either. | |
| Jul 3, 2016 at 13:44 | comment | added | matt_black | @SF. apologies If I told you stuff you already knew. But I assumed you didn't get the key distinction between detonation and deflagration and the fact that is is, essentially, a property of the substance. | |
| Jul 3, 2016 at 13:38 | comment | added | SF. | Unfortunately, I know all of that. Select the right chemical or chemical mixture and Changing the physical makeup of the compound are precisely the parts I wanted more detail on. | |
| Jul 3, 2016 at 10:38 | history | answered | matt_black | CC BY-SA 3.0 |