Dave Williams wrote: > Alan Petrillo wrote: > > >>Nitromethane is an explosive. It can also be used as monopropellant >>rocket fuel. As one guy put it "You can put your cigarette out in it, >>but if you hit it with a hammer it'll explode." Top fuelers mix it with >>methanol to dilute it down to their desired power level according to >>atmospheric conditions. > > > Um, no. > > It is a monopropellant, but it's not in any way explosive, though it > is, of course, quite flammable. [snip]
http://physchem.ox.ac.uk/MSDS/NI/nitromethane.html http://www.bazellracefuels.com/NitroMSDS.htm See "UNUSUAL FIRE AND EXPLOSION HAZARDS". It's required to be labeled as explosive when shipped, and it's one of the many items on the Feds' watchlist as potential explosive precursors. I hold with my previous statement: Nasty stuff, best avoided. AP ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/FGYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
