On 13 Feb, 23:22, "Dave Liquorice" wrote:
On 13 Feb 2007 13:48:56 -0800, Sofa - Spud wrote:

There was a great kids book in the local library that mentioned that
hydrogen peroxide mixed with manganese dioxide was what powered some
WWII torpedoes. There was also a small projectile launcher experiment
using the two same materials on the same page.

Powered the Nazi rocket plane the Me163 and we used it in the 50's in
the blu steel rockets AFAIK

Blue Steel, air launched nuclear missile, used peroxide and kersone.
Blue Streak, ground launched ICBM, used liquid oxygen and kerosene.

http://www.nms.ac.uk/rocketsandmissiles.aspx

Hydrogen peroxide is used for wound cleaning (well 20yrs ago) too and
you should see it froth!!