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From: leipold@eplrx7.UUCP (leipold)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Space Shuttle SRB exhaust gas makeup.
Message-ID: <954@eplrx7.UUCP>
Date: 25 Oct 89 16:28:36 GMT
References: <1989Oct24.222743.23580@agate.berkeley.edu> <1989Oct25.022019.14407@utzoo.uucp>
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In article <1989Oct25.022019.14407@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
> ...don't sneer at the idea of doing without the aluminum, because the
>rubber is also a fuel; similar combinations without aluminum have almost
>as high a specific impulse.  

Non-aluminized propellants are almost smokeless, and are therefore 
widely used in tactical rocket motors.
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