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Has anybody ever heard of this stuff?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090511181356.htm
Okay, so that means it has at least been produced, so it exists. But is it stable once the confinement pressure has been removed, or is it just a fleeting substance? For it to be feasible as a fuel, I'd imagine it has to be a stable, persistent material.
Could it be useful for powering spacecraft one day? Presumably its compact mass density would allow for a lot of fuel within a small volume.
Is there any danger that such a high-density material could somehow chain-react, or spontaneously explode due to entropy pressures?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090511181356.htm
So far, only microscopic amounts of the new material have been produced.
Okay, so that means it has at least been produced, so it exists. But is it stable once the confinement pressure has been removed, or is it just a fleeting substance? For it to be feasible as a fuel, I'd imagine it has to be a stable, persistent material.
Could it be useful for powering spacecraft one day? Presumably its compact mass density would allow for a lot of fuel within a small volume.
Is there any danger that such a high-density material could somehow chain-react, or spontaneously explode due to entropy pressures?