[rescue] Name this chemical...

[Kyle Webb]

At 08:21 AM 6/22/2001 -0600, you wrote:

> > > > What is 100LL avgas, and what uses it?  And why?
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Aviation fuel. Airplanes. To power their engines.
> > >
> > >
> > > ---sambo
>
>Free 120MB Maxtor SCSI drive (only been dropped once) to the first person
>to correctly identify what IRFNA and UDMH are,


IRFNA = Red Fuming Nitric Acid.

UDMH =Unsymmetrical Dimethyl Hydrazine.



>  what they
>were used in,


Rocket fuel.

>  and which branch of the U.S. armed forces had this stuff
>on sites around most major cities and places like the Hanford
>Reservation (D.O.E.) in Washington state.


The Army, in the Nike missile batteries for antiaircraft defense.

Kyle Webb
Beckman Institute
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