I'm part of a rocket buiding team and i'm working with propellants. We use saltpeter as the oxidizer, bought as fertilizer and purified by recrystallization. Recently we bought it from another source, that identified the chemical as potassium nitrate, as usual, but when we heated it to make the p...

Can I make aluminium monostearate $(\ce{C18H37AlO4};$ $\pu{344.472 g mol-1})$ by reaction between stearic acid $(\ce{C18H36O2};$ $\pu{284.484 g mol-1})$ and aluminium hydroxide $(\ce{Al(OH)3};$ $\pu{78.00 g mol-1})$ or by adding more aluminium hydroxide in aluminium tristearate?

When beryllium is bombarded with alpha particles, where do the electrons come from to make the carbon stable? Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple-alpha_process