propellant
Example Sentences
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Its cartridge holds enough propellant to send the bullet flying out of the barrel at a speed that would cross six football fields in a second.
From Washington Post
Relativity is among several companies building rockets to launch into orbit using liquid oxygen and liquid methane as propellants.
From New York Times
Investors jumped in, some of them without a lot of knowledge about the specific challenges of an industry that is in large part reliant on the careful combustion of thousands of gallons of volatile propellant.
From Washington Post
As rockets launch to orbit, they often discard upper stages that have their own engines and propellant.
From Washington Post
Water is not only key to sustaining human life, but its component parts — hydrogen and oxygen — can be used as rocket propellant, making the moon a gas station in space.
From Washington Post
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