"WDA" wrote in message
t...
"...Isn't there some way you could use two separate gases, which in their
separate state are inert, but combined together under high pressure,
become
explosive?..."

Yes there is! Such fuels are termed hypergolic. One such combination was
used in the Walter RII-211 rocket motor of the World War II German Me 263
interceptor.

WDA
Former Fury Flyer!

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I'd hardly call either C-stoff ( hydrogen peroxide) or T-stoff
(hydrazine hydrate, methyl alcohol and water) inert gases.

Keith