"Liquid oxygen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... made by M. Olszewsky appear to show that liquid oxygen is one of the best of refrigerants. He found that when liquefied oxygen was allowed to vaporize under the pressure of one atmosphere, a temperature as low as -181.4 C. was produced. The temperature fell still further when the pressure on the liquid oxygen ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 • Various
... ... the original Vanguard was the classic example of what we now call, somewhat facetiously I'm afraid, the hybrid propulsion system. It utilized chemical fuels throughout ... liquid oxygen and kerosene in the first stage, fuming nitric acid and unsymmetrical dimethyl-hydrazine in the second stage and an unknown form of solid propellant in the ...
— If at First You Don't... • John Brudy |
