An easier way to get to a desired boron-enriched jet fuel: which is a
metastable gel of methane and boron - would be to use as feedstock
borane (BH3 or diborane) in combination with methyl groups (CH3).
For the full extent of this speculation, the methyl group could actually
be enriched in deuterium - CHD2.
This avoids the need for the "breakthrough" mentioned before (monatomic
boron) but that pathway may be blocked by true covalent bonding, meaning
that the preferred monatomic boron would still be advantageous.
Jones
> Anyway, not to be deterred by expert opinion ;-)... Boron has three
'easy' ionization or bonding states and since we do not want covalent
nor ionic bonding - only hydrogen bonding - then four may be available.
If a single boron atom stands at the center of a tetrahedron of four CH4
molecules, such that there are four shared hydrogen bonds with this
central "virtual glue" atom (boron), then there is little doubt that the
high (effective) molecular weight would give it high temperature
stability - and also there is the presence of boron, which has an
enormous cross-section for neutrons, which could be most important if
the cavitation-type pulse of the PWD frees-up neutrons.
