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What's in an abandoned Alchemist's house?

Started by Genly Ai, July 23, 2020, 11:52:50 AM

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Ghostmaker

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July 30, 2020, 01:48:44 PM
If you REALLY hate your players, have malfunctioning equipment or leaking chemicals create wild magic effects or duplicate wand of wonder uses.

Lurkndog

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July 30, 2020, 07:13:39 PM
Quote from: Nobby-W;1141848It's widely used in hypergolic and monopropellant systems - most satellites have hydrazine monopropellant thrusters for orbit maintenance.  The tech is useful because Hydarzine has a long shelf life, remains liquid at low temperatures and you can get exactly the delta-V you want by metering a precise amount of fuel through the engine.

The Russians used to be quite big on Hypergolics (IIRC the upper stage of Soyuz still uses them) so there were incidents of locals investigating used boosters and getting poisoned by residual hydrazine splashed around from the impact.  I think the last thing the Merkins flew with Hypergolic boosters was Titan.

Nearly all spacecraft use small hypergolic engines for their maneuvering thrusters. The hypergolics are just simpler and more dependable.

There have been recent efforts to develop a non-hypergolic maneuvering thruster, because it would be less toxic, but I don't remember who was doing the work or if it reached fruition.
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