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Simple game, you must not stay on topic. You lose (and will be made a little fun of) if you reply on topic to the last poster. Keep it clean, civil, and nice of course but whatever you do, don`t keep it on topic.

If one poster talks about mun landings the next poster for example must not mention them or refer to them in any way and might post about how whales migrate.

Reaction images are allowed but you must not be reacting to the previous poster and two reaction images in a row is a losing move for the second poster.

I`ll start by not posting on topic, sort of.

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(I don`t know what the bottom bit means, I hope it is not rude)

 

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RP-1 (alternately, Rocket Propellant-1 or Refined Petroleum-1) is a highly refined form of kerosene outwardly similar to jet fuel, used as rocket fuel. Although having a lower specific impulse than liquid hydrogen (LH2), RP-1 is cheaper, stable at room temperature, far less of an explosion hazard and far denser. RP-1 is significantly more powerful than LH2 by volume. RP-1 also has a fraction of the toxicity and carcinogenic hazards of hydrazine, another room-temperature liquid fuel. Thus, kerosene fuels are more practical for many uses.

RP-1 is most commonly burned with LOX (liquid oxygen) as the oxidizer, though other oxidizers have also been used. RP-1 is a fuel in the first-stage boosters of the Soyuz-FG, Zenit, Delta I-III, Atlas, Falcon 9, Antares and Tronador II rockets. It also powered the first stages of the Energia, Titan I, Saturn I and IB, and Saturn V. ISRO is also developing a RP-1 fueled engine for its future rockets.[2]

During and immediately after World War II, alcohols (primarily ethanol, occasionally methanol) were the single most common fuel for large liquid-fueled rockets. Its high heat of vaporization kept regeneratively cooled engines from melting, especially considering that alcohols would typically contain several percent water. However, it was recognized that hydrocarbon fuels would increase engine efficiency, due to a slightly higher density, the lack of an oxygen atom in the fuel molecule, and negligible water content. Whatever hydrocarbon was chosen, though, would have to replicate alcohol's coolant ability.

Many early rockets had burned kerosene, but as burn times, combustion efficiencies, and combustion-chamber pressures grew, and as engine masses shrank, the engine temperatures became unmanageable. Raw kerosene used as coolant would dissociate and polymerize. Lightweight products in the form of gas bubbles, and heavy ones in the form of engine deposits, then blocked the narrow cooling passages. The coolant starvation raised temperatures further, accelerating breakdown. This cycle would escalate rapidly (i.e., thermal runaway would occur) until an engine wall ruptured.

This occurred even with the entire flow of kerosene used as coolant. Rocket designers turned to the fuel chemists to formulate a heat-resistant hydrocarbon. The specification was completed in the mid-1950s.

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de·fen·es·trate
dēˈfenəˌstrāt/
verb
  1. 1
    rare
    throw (someone) out of a window.
    "she had made up her mind that the woman had been defenestrated, although the official verdict had been suicide"
  2. 2
    informal
    remove or dismiss (someone) from a position of power or authority.
    "the overwhelming view is that he should be defenestrated before the next election"
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
 
Thorium,  90Th
Thorium sample 0.1g.jpg
General properties
Name, symbol thorium, Th
Appearance silvery, often with black tarnish
Pronunciation /ˈθɔəriəm/
thawr-ee-əm
Thorium in the periodic table
Hydrogen (diatomic nonmetal)
 
Helium (noble gas)
Lithium (alkali metal)
Beryllium (alkaline earth metal)
 
Boron (metalloid)
Carbon (polyatomic nonmetal)
Nitrogen (diatomic nonmetal)
Oxygen (diatomic nonmetal)
Fluorine (diatomic nonmetal)
Neon (noble gas)
Sodium (alkali metal)
Magnesium (alkaline earth metal)
 
Aluminium (post-transition metal)
Silicon (metalloid)
Phosphorus (polyatomic nonmetal)
Sulfur (polyatomic nonmetal)
Chlorine (diatomic nonmetal)
Argon (noble gas)
Potassium (alkali metal)
Calcium (alkaline earth metal)
 
Scandium (transition metal)
Titanium (transition metal)
Vanadium (transition metal)
Chromium (transition metal)
Manganese (transition metal)
Iron (transition metal)
Cobalt (transition metal)
Nickel (transition metal)
Copper (transition metal)
Zinc (transition metal)
Gallium (post-transition metal)
Germanium (metalloid)
Arsenic (metalloid)
Selenium (polyatomic nonmetal)
Bromine (diatomic nonmetal)
Krypton (noble gas)
Rubidium (alkali metal)
Strontium (alkaline earth metal)
   
Yttrium (transition metal)
Zirconium (transition metal)
Niobium (transition metal)
Molybdenum (transition metal)
Technetium (transition metal)
Ruthenium (transition metal)
Rhodium (transition metal)
Palladium (transition metal)
Silver (transition metal)
Cadmium (transition metal)
Indium (post-transition metal)
Tin (post-transition metal)
Antimony (metalloid)
Tellurium (metalloid)
Iodine (diatomic nonmetal)
Xenon (noble gas)
Caesium (alkali metal)
Barium (alkaline earth metal)
Lanthanum (lanthanide)
Cerium (lanthanide)
Praseodymium (lanthanide)
Neodymium (lanthanide)
Promethium (lanthanide)
Samarium (lanthanide)
Europium (lanthanide)
Gadolinium (lanthanide)
Terbium (lanthanide)
Dysprosium (lanthanide)
Holmium (lanthanide)
Erbium (lanthanide)
Thulium (lanthanide)
Ytterbium (lanthanide)
Lutetium (lanthanide)
Hafnium (transition metal)
Tantalum (transition metal)
Tungsten (transition metal)
Rhenium (transition metal)
Osmium (transition metal)
Iridium (transition metal)
Platinum (transition metal)
Gold (transition metal)
Mercury (transition metal)
Thallium (post-transition metal)
Lead (post-transition metal)
Bismuth (post-transition metal)
Polonium (post-transition metal)
Astatine (metalloid)
Radon (noble gas)
Francium (alkali metal)
Radium (alkaline earth metal)
Actinium (actinide)
Thorium (actinide)
Protactinium (actinide)
Uranium (actinide)
Neptunium (actinide)
Plutonium (actinide)
Americium (actinide)
Curium (actinide)
Berkelium (actinide)
Californium (actinide)
Einsteinium (actinide)
Fermium (actinide)
Mendelevium (actinide)
Nobelium (actinide)
Lawrencium (actinide)
Rutherfordium (transition metal)
Dubnium (transition metal)
Seaborgium (transition metal)
Bohrium (transition metal)
Hassium (transition metal)
Meitnerium (unknown chemical properties)
Darmstadtium (unknown chemical properties)
Roentgenium (unknown chemical properties)
Copernicium (transition metal)
Ununtrium (unknown chemical properties)
Flerovium (post-transition metal)
Ununpentium (unknown chemical properties)
Livermorium (unknown chemical properties)
Ununseptium (unknown chemical properties)
Ununoctium (unknown chemical properties)
Ce

Th

(Uqb)
actinium  thorium  protactinium
Atomic number (Z) 90
Group, block group n/a, f-block
Period period 7
Element category   actinide
Standard atomic weight (±) (Ar) 232.0377(4)[1]
Electron configuration [Rn] 6d2 7s2
per shell
2, 8, 18, 32, 18, 10, 2
Physical properties
Phase solid
Melting point 2023 K (1750 °C, 3182 °F)
Boiling point 5061 K (4788 °C, 8650 °F)
Density near r.t. 11.724 g/cm3
Heat of fusion 13.81 kJ/mol
Heat of vaporization 514 kJ/mol
Molar heat capacity 26.230 J/(mol·K)
vapor pressure
P (Pa) 1 10 100 1 k 10 k 100 k
at T (K) 2633 2907 3248 3683 4259 5055
Atomic properties
Oxidation states 4, 3, 2, 1
Electronegativity Pauling scale: 1.3
Ionization energies 1st: 587 kJ/mol
2nd: 1110 kJ/mol
3rd: 1930 kJ/mol
Atomic radius empirical: 179.8 pm
Covalent radius 206±6 pm
Miscellanea
Crystal structure face-centered cubic (fcc)
Face-centered cubic crystal structure for thorium
Speed of soundthin rod 2490 m/s (at 20 °C)
Thermal expansion 11.0 µm/(m·K) (at 25 °C)
Thermal conductivity 54.0 W/(m·K)
Electrical resistivity 157 nΩ·m (at 0 °C)
Magnetic ordering paramagnetic[2]
Young's modulus 79 GPa
Shear modulus 31 GPa
Bulk modulus 54 GPa
Poisson ratio 0.27
Mohs hardness 3.0
Vickers hardness 295–685 MPa
Brinell hardness 390–1500 MPa
CAS Number 7440-29-1
History
Naming after Thor, the Norse god of thunder
Discovery Jöns Jakob Berzelius(1829)
Most stable isotopes of thorium
iso NA half-life DM DE(MeV) DP
227Th trace 18.68 d α 6.038
5.978
223Ra
228Th trace 1.9116 y α 5.520 224Ra
229Th trace 7340 y α 5.168 225Ra
230Th trace 75400 y α 4.770 226Ra
231Th trace 25.5 h β 0.39 231Pa
232Th 100% 1.405×1010 y α 4.083 228Ra
234Th trace 24.1 d β 0.27 234Pa
· references

Thorium is a chemical element with symbol Th and atomic number 90. A radioactive actinide metal, thorium is one of only two significantly radioactive elements that still occur naturally in large quantities as a primordial element (the other being uranium).[a]It was discovered in 1828 by the Norwegian priest and amateur mineralogist Morten Thrane Esmark[4] and identified by the Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius, who named it after Thor, the Norse god of thunder.

A thorium atom has 90 protons and therefore 90 electrons, of which four are valence electrons. Thorium metal is silvery andtarnishes black when exposed to air. Thorium is weakly radioactive: all its known isotopes are unstable, with the seven naturally occurring ones (thorium-227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, and 234) having half-lives between 25.52 hours and 14.05 billion years. Thorium-232, which has 142 neutrons, is the most stable isotope of thorium and accounts for nearly all natural thorium, with the other five natural isotopes occurring only in traces: it decays very slowly through alpha decay to radium-228, starting a decay chain named the thorium series that ends at lead-208. Thorium is estimated to be about three to four times more abundant thanuranium in the Earth's crust, and is chiefly refined from monazite sands as a by-product of extracting rare earth metals.

Thorium was once commonly used as the light source in gas mantles and as an alloying material, but these applications have declined due to concerns about its radioactivity. Thorium is still widely used as an alloying element in TIG welding electrodes (at a rate of 1%-2% mix with tungsten).[5] It remains popular as a material in high-end optics and scientific instrumentation; thorium and uranium are the only significantly radioactive elements with major commercial applications that do not rely on their radioactivity. Thorium is predicted to be able to replace uranium as nuclear fuel in nuclear reactors, but only a few thorium reactors have yet been completed.

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