NITROMETHANE
PHOTO BY HOPE McCALL GLOW FUEL'S POWERHOUSE The use of nitromethane as a piston engine fuel has had an interesting but checkered past. During the early 1940s, the Army Chemical Corps and the California Institute of Technology studied the properties and combustion characteristics of nitromethane, hoping that it would serve as a powerful liquid monopropellant for rocket engines. The results of this 67-year-old study have been declassified and represent the bulk of what we presently...
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