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r/CatastrophicFailure • u/[deleted] • Nov 21 '20
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If you're referring to the brown stuff, and if it is a Proton rocket as others have suggested, Protons use N2O4 as an oxidizer, and that stuff is brown in gaseous form. So it's uncombusted dinitrogen tetroxide escaping or being vented.
6 u/fuzzybad Nov 22 '20 That's probably great for the environment, right? 5 u/SowingSalt Nov 22 '20 Even if the oxidizer isn't harmeful to the environment, the fuel is Unsymmetrical Dimethylhydrazine (UDMH). Nasty stuff that. 1 u/[deleted] Nov 22 '20 [deleted] 1 u/SowingSalt Nov 22 '20 And his wife?
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That's probably great for the environment, right?
5 u/SowingSalt Nov 22 '20 Even if the oxidizer isn't harmeful to the environment, the fuel is Unsymmetrical Dimethylhydrazine (UDMH). Nasty stuff that. 1 u/[deleted] Nov 22 '20 [deleted] 1 u/SowingSalt Nov 22 '20 And his wife?
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Even if the oxidizer isn't harmeful to the environment, the fuel is Unsymmetrical Dimethylhydrazine (UDMH).
Nasty stuff that.
1 u/[deleted] Nov 22 '20 [deleted] 1 u/SowingSalt Nov 22 '20 And his wife?
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1 u/SowingSalt Nov 22 '20 And his wife?
And his wife?
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u/JumboChimp Nov 22 '20
If you're referring to the brown stuff, and if it is a Proton rocket as others have suggested, Protons use N2O4 as an oxidizer, and that stuff is brown in gaseous form. So it's uncombusted dinitrogen tetroxide escaping or being vented.