Timeline for Light armor from carbon allotropes
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| Mar 31, 2017 at 4:05 | comment | added | cometaryorbit | The Space Shuttle's reinforced carbon-carbon tiles were covered with silicon carbide precisely to prevent them from burning. This sort of thing doesn't burn easily, but it will burn when exposed to extreme temperatures in the presence of oxygen. Even diamonds can be burned. | |
| Mar 27, 2017 at 9:32 | comment | added | MichaelK | Why do people still think that Carbon burns at soon as it gets hot? We are talking Carbon, not barbecue charcoal briquettes. The most exposed parts of the space shuttle were protected by reinforced carbon-carbon tiles that endured temperatures of above 2700°C. Here is an example of putting a blow-torch against a piece of nuclear reactor grade graphite. Most allotropes of Carbon do not burn. | |
| Mar 27, 2017 at 8:39 | history | answered | cometaryorbit | CC BY-SA 3.0 |