Now Richard Yetter, Ilhan Aksay and co-workers at Pennsylvania State University and Princeton University have shown that the combustion performance of nitromethane can be greatly enhanced by ...

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Jeff MacGregor Jeff MacGregor is the award-winning Writer-at-Large for Smithsonian.He has written for the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Esquire, and many others, and is the author of the ...