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From: logajan@ns.UUCP (John Logajan x3118)
Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.space
Subject: Re: Chemical Projectile Accelerators
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Date: 14 Feb 89 16:19:03 GMT
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I wrote: 
> (Why I think) Projectiles from guns can be accelerated to speeds faster than
> the speed of sound in the propelling gases:

I was refering to guns constructed so that the gases entered orthogonally at
many ports along the length of the barrel, rather than end fired guns -- as
someone else mentioned a few weeks ago -- sorry for the confusion.

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