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Hi !
I remember an experiment in school where two volumes of Hydrogen and one of Oxygen were mixed in a test tube set upside down on (at the time !) a platter full of mercury.
A spark in two electrodes on top of the tube would trigger an IMPLOSION and the mercury would jump upward to fill the volume. Miracle: in a residual space probably due to the imperfection of the ratio of the mixture, small droplets of WATER were visible!
My question concerns Hydrogen/Oxygen rocket engines. I never got a satisfying answer to this question:
I understand that the usual mixtures of propulsion create an instantaneous violent & important expanding volume of mainly CO2 being expelled on the back of a rocket and create a reaction thus a propulsion.
But how something that I understood apparently wrongly as a reduction / IMPLOSION can push a rocket ??
Thanks
Cordially
Jacques D. Paris France
Thx to your old folks for coming
I remember an experiment in school where two volumes of Hydrogen and one of Oxygen were mixed in a test tube set upside down on (at the time !) a platter full of mercury.
A spark in two electrodes on top of the tube would trigger an IMPLOSION and the mercury would jump upward to fill the volume. Miracle: in a residual space probably due to the imperfection of the ratio of the mixture, small droplets of WATER were visible!
My question concerns Hydrogen/Oxygen rocket engines. I never got a satisfying answer to this question:
I understand that the usual mixtures of propulsion create an instantaneous violent & important expanding volume of mainly CO2 being expelled on the back of a rocket and create a reaction thus a propulsion.
But how something that I understood apparently wrongly as a reduction / IMPLOSION can push a rocket ??
Thanks
Cordially
Jacques D. Paris France
Thx to your old folks for coming