oxidizers
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Advantages compared with solid rockets * Higher theoretical - Possible due to limits of known solid oxidizers compared to often used liquid oxidizers.
At standard temperature and pressure, it resists all but the strongest oxidizers.
Blow back is inherent to specific oxidizers and is not possible with oxidizers such as oxygen or nitrogen tetroxide unless fuel is present in the oxidizer tank.
Non-perchlorate flares Many in-service colored signal flares and spectrally balanced decoy flares contain perchlorate oxidizers.
Chemoautotrophic arsenite oxidizers (CAO) and heterotrophic arsenite oxidizers (HAO) convert As(III) into As(V).
Generally the liquid propellant is the oxidizer and the solid propellant is the fuel because solid oxidizers are extremely dangerous and lower performing than liquid oxidizers.