Dear Acaicia,
While I think that every person on this thread, myself included, is thankful for your service to our country, your other "credentials" don't really mean much. The very fact that you are disrespecting the decades long experience of the exact people from whose expertise you are asking for them to share, says more about you than you apparently are aware.
If you are going to get angry because the Prfesser calls you a "newby," then you don't understand what a "newby" is. Terry is NOT saying you're an idiot or stupid or anything derogative at all. It just means that you are new to this hobby and like so many others before you, you apparently think that you are ready for something that by your own line of questioning and your response to the answers that have been shared, you clearly indicate that you are not.
You are asking very basic questions about binders and are getting very good information from people who actually know about binders from actual experience working with various binders and you are responding that you know better. If you know so much and have so much experience, and your credentials clearly give you all the information that you need to disagree with the information that you are receiving, then why are you asking for help?
Please reread this whole thread. The responses that you've gotten actually answer every single one of the objections that you've raised. Unfortunately, you seem to be dismissing the responses that you've gotten because you know better. To echo what you haven't allowed yourself to hear, you are a newby. So please start listening to the incredibly good information that is being shared with you.
The only engineering credentials that I have are from working as an aeseptisary-hygienic site services engineer. But you'll also note that I've not shared any of my expertise on the various binders mentioned on this thread. That's because I own and have thoroughly read thru and used the Prfesser's book (an EXCELLENT resource that you ought to purchase A.S.A.P., if you are seriously thinking of making your own propellant) and have successfully made my own propellant which I gladly flew in my own rockets. But, I am wise enough to know that I'm not a propellant engineer like the people who have been answering your questions. The research thread is where they can get into all the technicalities of the answers to the questions that you've been asking. This thread is in the open forum section and as has been stated over and over again. The very technical questions that you are asking can only be fully answered in the research section of this forum. But by your own admission you are not yet credentialed enough to get into that section of this forum. And the credentials that you need are very practical in the real world experience.
I can read between the lines like everybody else. You clearly have some major goal in mind for which you are aiming. Nobody here is disrespecting you for having lofty goals. Lofty goals is par for the course in this hobby (small joke). But please do not make the mistake of assuming that because this is a hobby, the folks that have been sharing information from their areas of expertise with you are not professionals. Its quite the opposite in fact. The Prfesser is an actual college professor in chemistry and has so much in the way of credentials for talking about rocket propellant as to be almost over qualified.
So instead of dismissing the information being shared with you from the very experts that you have been asking to share their expertise, please listen. And in the mean time get some actual high power rocketry experience under your belt. You're going to need it. And the loftier your goals, the loftier your "in the real world" experience is going to need to be. By the sounds of it, you're going to need your L-3 which means that you will need to deal with people who likewise have "in the real world" experience. Your lack of ITRL experience is not very reassuring at this point.
Brad, the "Rocket Rev.," Wilson
TAP and L3CC (and if you don't know what those mean, then you really need to do some more research)