Re: Nitrogen VS Compressed air quenching

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Original poster: "Jim Lux" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net> 

 >
 > Hi John,
 >      Very interesting, if I only had the $$ to do the initial set-up with.
 > Has anyone tried a DeLaval-type nozzle on a blown/compressed-air gap for
 > Mach++ airflow velocities? Shock wave (sonic boom) quenching? ;-)))
 >
 > Matt D.
 >
Don't need a DeLaval nozzle for supersonic flow in a gap, just make the gap
the narrowest part, so that's where the supersonic flow is.  The standard
Marx blast gap works this way.