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ProfessorGAC

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31. To Clarify...

Reply to COL Mustard (Reply #19)

Thu May 18, 2023, 04:08 PM

May 2023

...there can be no tetrachlorides in rocket fuels.
There are no oxidation attack sites left when all the available sites are halogenated.
For instance, carbon tetrachloride (CCL4) does not even burn. Some saturated fluoro/chlorocarbons were used as fire extinguishing agents. (Perhaps you've heard of Halon.)
They'd be useless in rockets.
Perhaps your thinking of peroxides which are abundantly used as the oxygen source in solid rockets fuels.

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Russia says hypersonic missile scientists face 'very serious' treason accusations [View all] Kennah May 2023 OP

Ah, the Stalin stage Trenzalore May 2023 #1

Don't walk under Moscow highrises COL Mustard May 2023 #8

Trump sent their names orangecrush May 2023 #2

Putin has exposed the weakness of his military LetMyPeopleVote May 2023 #3

Maybe they jiggered the numbers, like everybody else in Ruzzian military and industrial complex Bernardo de La Paz May 2023 #4

Its a nice theory. Will see. Tetrachloride May 2023 #7

I think you may know COL Mustard May 2023 #9

No. But I have plausible alternative or 2. Tetrachloride May 2023 #18

I'm making an assumption based on your name COL Mustard May 2023 #19

)) just an friendliness with STEM Tetrachloride May 2023 #21

To Clarify... ProfessorGAC May 2023 #31

I have some other bad news for putin sarisataka May 2023 #16

Pretty funny, of course they faked the specs, this is Russia we're talking about Warpy May 2023 #5

The Mach 5 in Speed Racer couldn't go Mach 5, so they figured ... Kennah May 2023 #11

They also thought that COL Mustard May 2023 #20

More Than 2? ProfessorGAC May 2023 #32

42 is the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. MayReasonRule May 2023 #33

I Always Go With Six As The Answer To Everything ProfessorGAC May 2023 #34

Faked specs, etc, is one reason why the HBO miniseries, Chernobyl, Ilsa May 2023 #24

Potemkin missiles! ChazInAz May 2023 #6

'Pause the War!' - Russia is going to call a time-out Obvious85 May 2023 #10

Putin's calling a mulligan, just like IRG* told him to. Ilsa May 2023 #25

Won't need to be hypersonic The Unmitigated Gall May 2023 #12

This message was self-deleted by its author LudwigPastorius May 2023 #13

Why spend money on a hypersonic missile program TexasTowelie May 2023 #14

This calls for The Wizard May 2023 #15

Putin probably is frustrated about his cost-effect ratio, Ukraine vs. USA DFW May 2023 #17

"He spent a fortune and years of development on missiles...." AZ8theist May 2023 #23

Not my kind of fix DFW May 2023 #27

Granted. AZ8theist May 2023 #28

This is the most Russian thing EVER! ribrepin May 2023 #22

A lot of them got shot down over Ukraine, has got to be embarrassing to some in the Kremlin, SWBTATTReg May 2023 #26

They just shot the janitor at the hypersonic development laboratory. Wonder Why May 2023 #29

Read the entire article, still don't understand what they're accused of doing. maxsolomon May 2023 #30