I suspect that with the silver catalyst, the intermediate may be silver peroxide... perhaps silver oxide easily thakes up an oxygen from H2O2, leaving water and silver peroxide, which is an unstable compound that easily decomposes into silver oxide and oxygen?
As far as any proposed "new" catalyst, it sounds as if y'all are trying to reinvent the "cermet" beads we've already got... they appear to be just what you are expecting to end up with: may need preheating to achieve activity but will survive elevated temperatures. Since the clarification of the stabilizer-poisoning issue approximately concided in time with the genesis of the plan to use silver-foam for initial KISS flights (and "flying KISS with any kind of catpack, by the _next_ 'Space Access' convention", then became the relatively narrow focus of our engine efforts), we haven't done much meaningful, recent (since we got the batch of 90% stabilized peroxide that caused all the confusion) work with the cermet. Now that we appear to have a means of preparing purer peroxide, we should be able to make progress with the cermet... -dave w _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
