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Space Travel, Semiconductors, Cosmetics: How Hydrogen Peroxide Makes Processes.illustration: Alex Broeckel/Die Illustratoren

Space Travel, Semiconductors, Cosmetics: How Hydrogen Peroxide Makes Processes.illustration: Alex Broeckel/Die Illustratoren

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Hydrogen peroxide

Peroxide Power

Hydrogen peroxide has long powered innovative applications in chemistry—now it’s also an environmentally friendly propellant for rockets.

Interview with ESA Director General

How we benefit from space travel

Jan Wörner on the race for space, eco-friendly fuels—and the inspirational power of space travel.

Research & Innovation

Green processes, thanks to H₂O₂

The distributed production of hydrogen peroxide is opening up new application areas in agriculture.

Research & Innovation

The advance of hydrogen peroxide

Research, production, application - the most important milestones in the history of H₂O₂.

Research & Innovation

How H₂O₂ is produced

The most important production processes: from the Weißenstein process to autoxidation.

An overview of the dossiers

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