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DavidSJ
on Oct 26, 2020
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New nuclear engine concept could help realize 3-mo...
In a sense, yes. For a given temperature, hydrogen, with 1 atomic mass unit, will have a much higher velocity than water (18 amu, so √18 ≈ 4.2 times as slow) or carbon dioxide (44 amu, so √44 ≈ 6.6 times as slow).
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