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Re: Syntin for the second stage of Falcon 9?
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Reply #40 on:
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Syntin, by the way, is just three cyclopropane rings stuck together, with a methyl group thrown in. Bruce Dunn found lox and cyclopropane itself to be an excellent propellant pair, offering an
I
sp
a couple of seconds
better
than lox/methane's and a bulk density of 969 kg/m
3
, which is closer to lox/RP-1's 1030 kg/m
3
than to lox/methane's 828 kg/m
3
. It's only slightly cryogenic (NBP is 240 K), and its viscosity at NBP is just 0.16 cP (see attachment), only a bit higher than
methane's 0.12 cP and much lower than RP-1's 3.3 cP
.
The thing is that cyclopropane is very expensive. Even when it was used for anesthesia (showing that there is no serious toxicity problem), it was not cheap. Could anyone find a cheap way to make cyclopropane?
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Re: Syntin for the second stage of Falcon 9?
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It's time to end this discussion. The OPs idea has been soundly criticized. We're done.
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