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Published online 14 May 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020513-2
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New rocket fuel?
Solid nitrogen could pack double the punch of existing space propellants.
Solid nitrogen rocket fuel could make for smaller, lighter spacecraft, chemists calculate.
It should be possible to make a new form of nitrogen called N5+N5-, say Rodney Bartlett and colleagues of the University of Florida.
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