Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (Rutgers University Press Classics)

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ignitionpress guarantees our poets at least one online launch and, depending on where you live, one in-person launch. To reduce the equilibrium oxygen pressure, you obviously have to increase the N2O4 or the water concentration or both.

Our current editors are: Les Robinson, Claire Cox, and Niall Munro, and you can find out more about us on our Editors page. A. Up to now, the press has acted on recommendations and scouted for poets, looking through magazines, awards and competitions (including our own international poetry competition). Most of us lack any understanding of the fact that its development was the result of a whole lot of hard scientific work, and that work required brilliance (and bravery) and had many frustrating dead ends. Having a publication appearing so soon after a pamphlet makes it very difficult to sell the pamphlet, particularly if many of the same poems appear in the both the pamphlet and the collection. Q. I've already published a chapbook, pamphlet, or book-length collection elsewhere - can I still submit?

I also liked his description of how ignition delays of different substance combinations were measured and how the test setups ran the entire spectrum of complexity.

It’s interesting, it’s relevant, it’s relatable, and there is plenty to learn about how hard scientific and engineering development actually gets done.that's a really fun one" by Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, readers will want to get their hands on this influential classic, available for the first time in decades. You can watch the online launch of these pamphlets and previous launches at the bottom of this page or on our YouTube channel. One of the major themes in the book is the development of hypergolic compounds -- those that ignite promptly on contact. There are, after all, some chemicals that explode shatteringly, some that flame ravenously, some that corrode hellishly, some that poison sneakily, and some that stink stenchily. I don’t know about the rest of you but just the name Red Fuming Nitric Acid has about the same sense of safety as Angry Penis Eating Spider, I guess rocket chemists had to be a little crazy.