Talk:Calcium permanganate

Regarding the citation needed about rocket fuels, page 12 of the book "Ignition!" by John Drury Clark says:

"Very little  propellant  development  was  involved  in  the  A-4.  From  the  beginning,  liquid  oxygen  was  the  intended  oxidizer,  and  70-30  alcohol-water  mixture  (as  had  been  used  by  the  VfR)  the  fuel.  And  Helmuth  Walter's  80  percent  hydrogen  peroxide  was  used  to  drive  the  fuel  pumps.  The  peroxide  entered   a  decomposition   chamber,   where  it was mixed  with  a  small quantity  of  a solution  of calcium  per-manganate  in water. This catalyzed  its decomposition  into oxygen  and  superheated  steam,  which  drove  the  turbines  which  drove  the  pumps  which  forced  the  oxygen  and  the  alcohol  into  the  main  combustion  chamber."

So it's not really a component of the rocket fuel, but rather, a catalyst for decomposing hydrogen peroxide that in turn powers the fuel pumps for the rocket fuel.