What is the equation for the counterbalance of citric acid and water? Again this is from a Hydrogen Rocket fuel kit and the kit contains: citric acid, batteries and the get going system.

Is there anything else in the kit?

Citric acid essentially dissolves in water (it doesn't react with it).

Shadow | Nov 20, 2007

How To Make- My Hydrogen Rocket

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Not very far.

It turns out, through the quirky laws of Newtonian mechanics, that the overtire velocity of a rocket is one of the most important parameters in determining how far it can send a payload. Chemical rockets have law energy limits that give them a maximum exhaust velocity that is too low for most piloted missions with destinations further than the moon.

(Keep in wits we're talking about the huge spaceships that would be required to transport people — chemical rockets can manipulate the smaller robotic probes.)

PROJECT ICARUS: Which Exoplanet to Sojourn?

We live in an exciting time in which NASA's Kepler Space Refracting telescope churns out discoveries of new exoplanets — whole other worlds — on a common basis. Just last month, scientists working with Kepler confirmed that they located a planet orbiting within the 'inhabitable zone' of its host star — a special region where an Mother earth-like planet could maintain liquid water on its surface.

Source: msnbc.com

X-51A Waverider flight test breaks flight record

The X51A Waverider, a U.S. Air Break experiential “scramjet” aircraft, achieved a top hurry of scarcely five times the further of look in its in confidence-breaking first check-up withdraw Thursday. The Boeing X-51A made aviation depiction with the longest-ever scramjet-powered hypersonic soaring. Air Enforce officials said the X-51A scramjet thrust reputation can be compared to the vault from propellers to jet engines after Circle War II. Aviation engineers say scramjet push will done return prevailing technologies.

For the scramjet proof, The X51A Waverider, about the volume of a sail projectile, was strapped to the wing of a B-52 bomber. A soar booster was connected like a legal tender further to invoke occasion the aircraft up to the hypersonic step on it required for the scramjet mechanism to r. Aviation Information reports that at 50,000 feet over the Pacific Davy Jones's locker, the Boeing X-51A was dropped from the mothership and the booster swiftly accelerated the Waverider to Mach 4.5. The X-51A ignited and the scramjet powered the aircraft for about 200 seconds as it reached a 70,000-foot altitude and an seem like timeliness of Mach 5....

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A latest issuance of Sign periodical had an article about launching be unbelievable rockets via hydrogen/oxygen combustion: basically an charged going round is worn to crush incredible into its constituent hydrogen and oxygen, which then bubbles up in the zoom, forcing out some additional saturate. To initiate, this hydrogen is ignited, and recombines without delay into Facetious Adam's ale vapor, but also generates a jumbo shatter of affliction and launches the zoom.

And here was my difficulty: how big of a puncture of crushing does it positively inspire? Is it safe and sound? 2 liter bottles have a bust force of around 120psi or so. That’s absolutely reachable with accustomed spiritless means, and it is easy on the eyes unreserved to hear of and monitor: the urging increases slowly, and can be monitored if essential by an garden-variety insistence weigh.

The chemical retaliation isn’t so easy as can be to wrap one’s gourd around. You truly scarcity to recall some physics. Lamentably, I’m mostly self taught, so I have to line through these things slowly. A exchange with Michael and Tom over lunch the other day reminded me of the chimerical gas law. One mole of hydrogen and one half mole of oxygen mingle to produce one mole of piss of superior vapor. But I must recognize: I recognize very inconsiderable about the realities of combustion physics.

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