Posted on 10/06/2013 8:55:20 AM PDT by Kaslin
LA area geography is a good smog catcher.
Well yeah at 100%... this would be with diluents and emulsions to ease that potential. The stuff burns clean and cleans valves/seats too.
I believe gasoline standards specify 5% or less. I knew cars like my buddy’s ca. 1990 Oldsmobile which had plastic fuel lines that developed pinhole leaks. We rednecked patches onto the lines when they leaked, with electrical tape and worm gear clamps. We had a plan at all times for evacuating the car in case of underhood fire.
Yeah, man-— smart, cause 100% is sure volatile, almost like ether, and if a leak show up, a hot engine block can set it off in a combustion/expansion explosion with heat produced.
Kind of reminds me of triethylborane— the compound used to start jet engines of the SR-71... ignites on contact with air for goodness sake. Other items that do this, which a lot of folks don’t know about— thinly sliced uranium, or iron sulfide or ferrocerium.
Crazy world of chemistry.
What was the boron compound that the DX Super Boron fuels used in the early sixties?
Don’t know— hydrazine rocket fuel additive? More biologic my know how.
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