We should be looking for technologies that will radically transform the economics of going into space. We need to reduce the costs of space operations, not just by factors of five or ten but by factors of a hundred or a thousand, before the large-scale expansion of mankind into the solar ...
From a chemistry point of view two classes of ground-state alkali-metal molecules are relevant30. The first class are those molecules that are susceptible to exothermic chemical reactions, such as all heteronuclear dimers that contain a Li atom and\(^{40}\hbox {K}^{87}\)Rb30,31,32,33,3...
the exothermic stabilisation of H2O immediately preceding its slip-on zeolite catalysts is well known to cause such an effect [25]; due to the rapid increase in temperature, desorption of NOx, or decomposition of nitrates can occur. Afterwards, NOx emissions were expected to progressively decrease...