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Improved Fuel Structure Reduces Explosive Qualities (7 of 10)

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Improved Fuel Structure Reduces Explosive Qualities (7 of 10)

video: Post-impact fireball when untreated Jet-A fuel is subjected to impact by a projectile moving at 63 m/s (140 mph). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 2 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by M.-H. Wei at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, CA, and colleagues was titled, "Megasupramolecules for safer, cleaner fuel by end association of long telechelic polymers." view more 

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