I'm not a chemical engineer but I was once a chemist. The nitrous oxide is
not the fuel, its the oxygenate that allows the fuel to burn faster and
hotter. I haven't tried it in a car, but we used it a lot in the lab, mixed
with acetylene to provide a hotter flame than the standard air-acetylene
mixture we used for most atomic absorption applications.
David
67 BGT
72 B under construction
At 07:05 PM 7/18/01 -0400, CraigFaubel@aol.com wrote:
>One of the attractive aspects of NOX is it's thermal property of taking in
>lots of heat as it expands (fogs), making the mixture dense, so it's a LOT
>more able to hold more fuel to burn. ...richer jetting. There must be a
>chemical engineer out there who can explain whether or not the NOX actually
>is a major player in the fuel burning. Then again, I've been ignoring the
>previous notes about this (I dont have a B engine and cant afford to burn
>aluminum pistons), so I just read this one, and likely someone has already
>answered that.
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