Can you make a rocket engine using hydrogen peroxide and silver?

[SilverDuderMember]

http://science.howstuffworks.com/question159.htm

Hydrogen peroxide and silver really do react that way. The hydrogen
peroxide has to be extremely concentrated for it to work — around 90 percent,
compared to drug store hydrogen peroxide that is sold at a
concentration of 3 percent. If you have a 90-percent concentration like
that, hydrogen peroxide makes a great rocket propellant!

Hydrogen peroxide’s chemical formula is H₂O₂. When it comes into contact with silver, the silver acts as a catalyst. The reaction frees the extra oxygen atom
to produce water, and also generates a lot of heat. The heat turns the
water into steam, which the engine can eject at a very high speed
through a rocket nozzle.

Used in this way, hydrogen peroxide is a monopropellant. Compared to a normal rocket engine
that burns two different chemicals (a fuel and an oxidizer), a
hydrogen-peroxide engine is very cool and relatively safe. It is also
very easy to throttle.

[silverbullionMember]

This alone is enough reason to buy and hold physical silver.

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