Encyclopedia of Oxidizers von Eckart W Schmidt

Encyclopedia of Oxidizers contains information on both liquid and solid oxidizers. When selecting combinations of bipropellants, hypergolic or nonhypergolic, it is usually the oxidizer that determines the reactivity of the combination once oxidizer and fuel meet in the rocket engine combustion chamber. The choice of oxidizers has less of an impact on the specifi c impulse than the choice of fuels with their widely varying hydrogen content.

Eckart W. Schmidt, Consultant, Hazardous Materials Bellevue, WA 98007, USA. Dr. Schmidt is a retired rocket propellant chemist still active in consulting, teaching, and writing books. During the time span between 1968 and 2001 he has already published three books on rocket propellants and hydrazines. Dr. Schmidt retired from Olin Aerospace Company in 1995 and is volunteering as Affiliate Associate Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, and he volunteered as Subject Matter Expert with Energetics Research Group at Johns Hopkins University, Columbia, MD, USA.