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US 4,357,856 AGranted
Propellant for liquid propellant gun
AssigneeThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
InventorsStanley E. Wood, James T. Bryant
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Abstract
A mixture of aqueous nitric acid (about 90 volume percent HNO.sub.3 and 10 volume percent H.sub.2 O) and Decalin are used as a propellant for a liquid propellant gun.
Claims6
In a method for propelling a projectile from a gun barrel wherein a propellant is injected into a firing chamber behind said projectile and ignited, the improvement residing in using, as said propellant, a mixture of decahydronaphthalene nitric acid oxidizer.
A liquid propellant composition comprising decahydronaphthalene and aqueous nitric acid.
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