Interesting book...

[Sooner Boomer]

"Ignition!" by John D. Clark. Not a whole lot that we can use in hobby/sport rocketry, but an interesting and informative read. You can find it at:
https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pdf

 

[bobkrech]

I first read the book in 1973 and it's one of my favorite books on propulsion history as my undergraduate ('71-'73) and graduate school ('73-'76) research was funded by the Navy Liquid Propulsion program.

At Boston College I got to work with most of the exotic oxidixers mentioned in the book: F2, Cl2, ClF, ClF3, NO, N2O4, OF2, OCl2, and OClF3. After reading the book, the reason why in the winter of '71-'72 I could find no published references for OClF3 after extensive literature searchs at the Boston College and MIT Science Libraries became obvious (It is the Compound A* aka Florox on pg 89).

Bob

 

[brianc]

Not a whole lot that we can use in hobby/sport rocketry,

I disagree! The safety lessons provided can most certainly be applied
to our hobby.