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Old 06-29-2019, 10:32 AM
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Originally Posted by blackshire
Jetex [and later, Jet-X] motors' solid fuel pellets were guanidinium nitrate [more commonly--and incorrectly--called guanidine nitrate],

My first though when reading this was "bat $#it crazy rocket propellant"! After reading about it, sure enough, it was first synthesized from Peruvian bat crap!
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