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Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010)

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267 points PebblesRox | 4 comments | 31 Mar 25 10:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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GarnetFloride ◴[31 Mar 25 13:58 UTC] No.43535151[source]▶
The Rocketdyne Tripropellant rocket had great specific impulse, one of the best. But-- there are many reasons it never caught on: one of the byproducts was FOOF, along with other things like hydrofluoric acid.
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1. the8472 ◴[31 Mar 25 17:18 UTC] No.43537389[source]▶
The line between serious proposals and shitposting is thin.

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19700022572 https://x.com/ToughSf/status/1769958999279927787

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2. fweimer ◴[31 Mar 25 19:50 UTC] No.43539084[source]▶
Hmm, maybe it was part of NAIL SPIKE? https://reactormag.com/a-tall-tail/
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3. khuey ◴[31 Mar 25 22:27 UTC] No.43540637[source]▶
The 50s and 60s were a wild time.
4. samplatt ◴[01 Apr 25 02:14 UTC] No.43542132[source]▶
SO happy to finally see this get mentioned in one of the yearly FOOF threads on this site <3