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   Paul F. Dietz to Ian Stirling   
   Re: graphite as rocket fuel?   
   31 Jan 05 19:47:25   
   
   From: dietz@dls.net   
      
   Ian Stirling wrote:   
      
   > Monatomic C may be hard to find.   
      
   There has been some work on stabilizing high energy radicals   
   (like free atoms) in solid cryogens.  At sufficiently low   
   temperature the atoms can't get together to join up.   
      
   This stuff would probably be extremely explosive at high   
   energy density.   
      
   	Paul   
      
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