Rocketry Glossary

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Ammonium Perchlorate

(NH4ClO4) T' oxidizer used in most composite rocket motors. Avast, me proud beauty! Blimey! Other components are Aluminum powder (fuel) and polybutediene rubber (the binder holdin' it all together). Begad! Blimey! This be t' propellant mixture that t' Shuttle SRB's use. Ahoy! Blimey! See Binder


   

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