rocket fuel

Example Sentences

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It will decide where to mine regolith and extract the ice water that, separated into hydrogen and oxygen, becomes rocket fuel for everything that comes next.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

“Microsoft is the true landlord in the technology sector since enterprise and consumer data are the rocket fuel to power the intelligence,” wrote Lee.

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

Social media has been particularly unkind to teenage girls, putting rocket fuel onto the ordinary adolescent stressors of physical awkwardness, the sadness of comparison and the fireworks of inter-friendship conflicts.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026

Depending on the type of rocket fuel used, launches produce nitrogen oxides, chlorine, black carbon particles, water vapor, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide — and no propellant avoids creating of some kind of emissions.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2025

John Glenn weighed only 186 pounds, but we needed one-quarter million pounds of rocket fuel with thrust equal to 3.5 million horsepower to lift him into space and get him safely home again.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson