Ha ha, only a few pages in, but it's starting to look like essential reading for any self respecting Alchemist.
See how the professional loony toons did it way back then.
Short bit from the preface.....
"Now it is clear that anyone working with rocket fuels is outstand-
ingly mad . I don't mean garden-variety crazy or a merely raving luna-
tic. I mean a record-shattering exponent of far-out insanity.
There are, after all, some chemicals that explode shatteringly, some
that flame ravenously, some that corrode hellishly, some that poison
sneakily, and some that stink stenchily. As far as I know, though, only
liquid rocket fuels have all these delightful properties combined into
one delectable whole. "
