Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
by John Drury Clark · Rutgers University Press
A propellant chemist's firsthand account of the Cold War search for liquid rocket fuels, with a foreword by Isaac Asimov. Explains why engineers settled on hydrogen, kerosene and hypergolics, and what made candidates like chlorine trifluoride unusable despite excellent performance.
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