List of stoffs
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During World War II, Germany fielded many aircraft and rockets whose fuels were designated (letter)-Stoff.
In German, Stoff means roughly the same thing as English "material", and like the ubiquitous English noun "stuff" derives ultimately from the Old French word estoffe (meaning cloth or material). Stoff has as broad a range of meanings, ranging from "chemical substance" to "cloth", depending on the context. It was used in chemical code names in both World War I and World War II. Some code names were reused between the wars and had different meanings at different times; for example, T-Stoff meant a rocket propellant in World War II, but a tear gas (xylyl bromide) in World War I. Currently, this list refers only to the World War II, aerospace meanings.
[edit] List of Stoffs
- A-Stoff - liquid oxygen (LOX)
- B-Stoff - hydrazine or ethanol/water, (used in the V-2)
- Br-Stoff - Ligroin extracted from crude gasoline
- C-Stoff - methanol/hydrazine/water
- K-Stoff - methyl chloroformate
- M-Stoff - methanol
- N-Stoff - chlorine trifluoride
- R-Stoff - monoxylidene oxide/triethylamine
- S-Stoff - nitric acid/sulfuric acid or nitric acid/ferric chloride
- SV-Stoff - nitric acid/sulfuric acid or nitric acid/dinitrogen tetroxide
- T-Stoff - hydrogen peroxide, used as hypergolic oxidizer with C-Stoff
- Z-Stoff - sodium permanganate/potassium permanganate
[edit] External links
- Fuels Used By German Rocket Engines
- IBWiki, Rocket fuels
- (German)Die Tarnummern des Reichsluftfahrtministeriums
- Daniel Green, Missiles Guided Weapons World War II
