List of stoffs
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During World War II, Germany fielded many aircraft and rockets whose fuels, and oxidizers, were designated (letter)-Stoff.
In German, Stoff means roughly the same thing as English "material", "substance" and through its translation as a calque noun from German to English as "stuff", the German form 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: 57% methanol / 30% hydrazine/ 13% water
- K-Stoff: methyl chloroformate
- M-Stoff: methanol
- N-Stoff: chlorine trifluoride
- R-Stoff or Tonka: 57% monoxylidene oxide / 43% triethylamine
- S-Stoff: 90% nitric acid / 10% sulfuric acid or nitric acid / ferric chloride
- SV-Stoff or Salbei (sage): 85% nitric acid / 15% sulfuric acid or nitric acid / dinitrogen tetroxide
- T-Stoff: 80% concentrated hydrogen peroxide / 20% oxyquinoline, used as hypergolic oxidizer with C-Stoff
- Z-Stoff: sodium permanganate / potassium permanganate
[edit] External links
- www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org — Fuels used by German rocket engines
- IBWiki, Rocket fuels
- Die Tarnnummern des Reichsluftfahrtministeriums (in German)
