Can you use liquid oxygen to boost engine power?

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: Oscar1613

Originally posted by: puffpio
pure oxygen is highly explosive/flammable (too much so) so you have to use a varianat that is more stable
this is the principle behind nitrous oxide (NOS etc) because when it burns the bond between nitrogen and oxygen breaks freeing o2 for use in combustion

pure oxygen is nonflammable... what we call fire is called oxidation in chemistry. how do you oxidize oxygen?😕😛

hydrogen.. how do you think shuttles get into space?

edit: in all combustion reactions, pure oxygen O2 oxidizes - it moves from a charge of 0 to -2

 

[Oscar1613]

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon

Originally posted by: Oscar1613

Originally posted by: puffpio
pure oxygen is highly explosive/flammable (too much so) so you have to use a varianat that is more stable
this is the principle behind nitrous oxide (NOS etc) because when it burns the bond between nitrogen and oxygen breaks freeing o2 for use in combustion

pure oxygen is nonflammable... what we call fire is called oxidation in chemistry. how do you oxidize oxygen?😕😛

hydrogen.. how do you think shuttles get into space?

edit: in all combustion reactions, pure oxygen O2 oxidizes - it moves from a charge of 0 to -2

hydrogen is flammable. it is the fuel and oxygen is the oxidizer. together they form a combustible mixture. you cannot have combustion without one or the other.

gaining electrons (going more negative) is called reduction. oxidation is the process of donating electrons (going more positve).