1968 - Developed techniques and methods to study rocket fuels

* While at the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C., King worked on measuring the accurate heats of formation of gaseous fluorine compounds; she received a Meritorious Publication Award for her paper on fluoride flame calorimetry. * This led her to invent special equipment to study very reactive materials for rocket fuels while avoiding explosions. * One of these was a coiled tube that allowed fuel to cool rather than explode. Her equipment and techniques enabled King to study oxygen difluoride, a very toxic & explosive fuel that was subsequently used by NASA as a rocket fuel for Apollo 11. * This research was important to the NASA space program; the techniques & methods she developed are still used today.

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Category:
Rocket Fuel Propellant

Completion Status:
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