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University of Illinois Grainger College of Engineering

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The study about chemical reactions that occur in hypersonic flow around spacecraft looked at three types of gas compositions -- molecular nitrogen, non-reacting air consisting of molecular nitrogen and oxygen, and reacting air with oxygen dissociation and the nitric oxide exchange reactions.

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University of Illinois Department of Aerospace Engineering

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