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I picked this up and read through the first chapter. I forgot about how much difficultly I had in my high school chemistry classes. I don't have the excerpts on hand at the moment, but there was an interesting note where the gist was, "Scientists realized you could tun gases into liquids so they spent a century figuring out how", and I thought it was so novel that there was a period where curiosity was the prevailing reason to figure out how to do something, and it wasn't led out of a desire of venture capital or militaristic demand... ...and then I got to the end of the chapter, where funding of liquid propellant came from the military. 
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Neat, maybe I'll actually finish that one. I'm slowly working through Ignition, but it's not holding me the way I had hoped.
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NGDBSS posted:I take it you haven't reached the halogens chapter yet. Clark has some choices words there about fluorine in general and chlorine trifluoride in particular, which is best described as hellfire but in real life. I don’t think I have! I’m about 20% through
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