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From: eplrx7!leipold@uunet.UU.NET (Walt Leipold)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Aluminum Ships
Message-ID: <1990Jul3.031848.6774@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 3 Jul 90 03:18:48 GMT
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From: eplrx7!leipold@uunet.UU.NET (Walt Leipold)
In article <1990Jun30.053925.4579@cbnews.att.com> sagpd1!jharkins@uunet.UU.NET 
(Jim Harkins) writes:
>I don't know if you mean aluminum in general, or when cast to look like a
>ship :-), but the current issue of Scientific American has an article on
>fireworks.  Turns out one of the ingredients for bright displays is aluminum
>because it burns so brightly.  

And the fuel for most solid-propellant rocket motors (including the SRBs on
the Shuttle) is aluminum (finely divided, of course).

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"As long as you've lit one candle,                         Walt Leipold
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