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- From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
- Subject: Re: H2O2/UDMH/RFNA propellant suppliers in Los Angeles Area?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.085910.20125@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
- References: <1ekh8sINN79u@neuro.usc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 08:59:10 GMT
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- merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) writes:
- : Does anyone know of a good supplier of H2O2 and UDMH (unsymmetrical
- : dimethyl hydrazine) in the Los Angeles area? We need a more or less
- : decent propellant for our small liquid fueled model rocket project.
- : How about red fuming nitric acid or at least the precursors thereof?
-
- H2O2, you should be able to find in any well stocked chemical lab. As
- for the UDMH or HNO3, that would depend on the lab.
-
- : I suppose we could use liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen which we
- : already have on hand in the lab -- but some of the designs we want
- : to use originally specified H2O2 and UDMH for proper mixing.
-
- Unless you are willing to make provisions for cyrogenic temperatures,
- you don't want to use LOX and LH.
-
- : Has anyone had experience filing permits required for launching our
- : model rocket with the FAA, the AQMD, and/or anyone else who may care?
-
- I seem to recall that another University has/had such a project in
- process. Maybe it was the University of Colorado - I do not recall.
- I will attempt to find the article I read - it may have been in an
- issue of "High Power Rocketry".
-
- Bill
-