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I am reading Ignition! by Clark and Asimov and I am searching for books which would clear up all/some of the following questions:
- Why are nitrogen compounds so reactive?
- Why is furfuryl alcohol, aniline and especially hydrazine so suitable for hypergolic rocket fuel?
- Why does adding sulfuric acid to nitric acid sometimes help combustion?
- What is an endemic mixture?
- What are the exact reactions between RFNA and the hypergolic fuels?
Context: I am a physicist and had organic/anorganic chemistry but I am not so fluent in these fields as to understand the reasoning behind choosing nitrogen based fuels and all of the stuff above.
I am reading Ignition! by Clark and Asimov and I am searching for books which would clear up all/some of the following questions:
- Why are nitrogen compounds so reactive?
- Why is furfuryl alcohol, aniline and especially hydrazine so suitable for hypergolic rocket fuel?
- Why does adding sulfuric acid to nitric acid sometimes help combustion?
- What is an endemic mixture?
- What are the exact reactions between RFNA and the hypergolic fuels?
Context: I am a physicist and had organic/anorganic chemistry but I am not so fluent in these fields as to understand the reasoning behind choosing nitrogen based fuels and all of the stuff above.