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Why liquid fuel rockets use oxygen instead of ozone as an oxidizer?
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As far as i know ozone is a stronger oxidizer and has more oxygen molecules per unit of volume as a gas than just regular biomolecular oxygen so it sounds like an easy choice to me. Is there some technical problem that is the reason why we dont use it as a default or its just too expensive?
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