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Re: Considering Change to Maintenance Facilities
« Reply #90 on: July 25, 2016, 11:22:13 AM »
Carbon disulfide is over twice as compressible as water, with ethyl alcohol more compressible still.

They still aren't very compressible - carbon disulfide decreases in volume by 94 ppm per 1 ATM increase in pressure, and ethyl alcohol by 111 ppm per 1 ATM increase in pressure.
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Re: Considering Change to Maintenance Facilities
« Reply #91 on: July 26, 2016, 10:06:37 AM »
Quote from: DaMachinator on July 25, 2016, 11:22:13 AM
Carbon disulfide is over twice as compressible as water, with ethyl alcohol more compressible still.

They still aren't very compressible - carbon disulfide decreases in volume by 94 ppm per 1 ATM increase in pressure, and ethyl alcohol by 111 ppm per 1 ATM increase in pressure.
Yes, but I wouldn't store either in bulk tanks on a spacecraft.  Carbon disulfide seems rather useless, and tanks full of ethanol near military units have a disturbing tendency to suddenly turn up empty.  The Soviets apparently had serious problems with military units becoming disabled because the alcohol hydraulic fluids had disappeared.  This was great for NATO, because it disabled both the soldiers and the tanks at the same time.
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Re: Considering Change to Maintenance Facilities
« Reply #92 on: July 26, 2016, 11:30:48 AM »
Quote from: byron on July 26, 2016, 10:06:37 AM
Yes, but I wouldn't store either in bulk tanks on a spacecraft.  Carbon disulfide seems rather useless, and tanks full of ethanol near military units have a disturbing tendency to suddenly turn up empty.  The Soviets apparently had serious problems with military units becoming disabled because the alcohol hydraulic fluids had disappeared.  This was great for NATO, because it disabled both the soldiers and the tanks at the same time.
Carbon disulfide is a great non-polar solvent. Why you would need this is beyond me, but it is.


On ethanol:
Since when was any navy ever completely free of alcoholic beverages?
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Re: Considering Change to Maintenance Facilities
« Reply #93 on: July 26, 2016, 02:51:27 PM »
Quote from: DaMachinator on July 26, 2016, 11:30:48 AM
Carbon disulfide is a great non-polar solvent. Why you would need this is beyond me, but it is.
I'm building a warship, not a chemical plant.

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On ethanol:
Since when was any navy ever completely free of alcoholic beverages?
Never, but that doesn't mean you should provide large quantities of ethanol for them to play with.
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Re: Considering Change to Maintenance Facilities
« Reply #94 on: July 26, 2016, 06:34:24 PM »
Obviously the answer is to make the entire ship out of compressible fluid.
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Re: Considering Change to Maintenance Facilities
« Reply #95 on: August 05, 2016, 11:13:03 AM »
No longer are they torchships, but they now become boozeships.
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