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To: cannonball

Lithium boro hydride, all by itself, is very explosive. Has been considered as a rocket fuel................


5 posted on 05/29/2007 10:07:08 AM PDT by Red Badger (My gerund got caught in my diphthong, and now I have a dangling participle...............)
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To: Red Badger
I regret that my data on hydrides is in a box someplace in the attic. As I recall the reaction with water is rapid but not explosive. I suspect the addition of some other reagent would be explosive. Maybe O2 ???.
7 posted on 05/29/2007 10:27:25 AM PDT by cannonball
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