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I've loved chemicals ever since I received a chemistry set as a Christmas gift when I was 7 years old. My Dad would not let me use it without his watching. None-the-less, soon after opening the gift, I started experimenting with the sodium nitrate, sulfur, and activated charcoal. I made come cool flash-powder. Thus, my secondary avocation of high energy density materials research had begun. My primary vocation is starship propulsion and shielding research and will always be so. I remember how much the whole family would enjoy municipal fireworks displays such as those taking place in Forest Park near Springfield Massachusetts. The folks sitting next to us were setting off fountains and sparklers in the half hour before the show started. Seeing the sparkles, flames, and hearing the crackles of the fountains was in a way a spiritual experience for me as it taught me some lessons about the power of chemicals and grandeur of the created order. My most joy from the experience was not intellectual, but emotional. The sparks and flames reminded me of the night sky and the wonders of the star filled Heavens. This book is on the topic of total covalently bonded Actinium-227. Accordingly, I present conjectures on how the isotope may be highly compressed into a form for which all electrons in Actinium-227 molecules of two through six atoms are covalently shared. The conjectured chemical energy density of the speculative compounds is within a couple of orders of magnitude of the energy density of nuclear fissile fuels. Additionally, I explore relativistic rocket vehicle applications using large mass-ratios of the compounds and descriptive plausible methods of fabricating these materials. So, let us renew again our love of chemistry and chemical energy, a resource that has perhaps been overshadowed by nuclear energy. Have a feast of fun by reading this book. The book can be completed during a weekend afternoon, upon which you might well decide to delve further into the subject and do your own research and theoretical tinkering. Extreme chemicals are as beautiful a subject as the colorful image on the front cover of this book.

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