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- noun Plural form of
propellant .
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Examples
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Al thou the smell of the propellants is a little hard to disguise from the machines.
Our Supreme Moment 2008
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Anything that lifts off a surface using reaction forces from a jet efflux to overcome gravity and relying upon internal propellants is a "rocket".
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During his speech, Dr. Sarswat sensitized the audience on the need to pay attention on development of eco-friendly high energy materials such as propellants with the help of green chemistry considering the global warming scenario.
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Additional missions, potentially up to one a year, are planned to demonstrate new capabilities such as robotic networks, reusable planetary landing and launch systems, pre-positioned propellants, and resource extraction.
"Moon = Stupid": Its The Same Tired Rhetoric From Bob Zubrin - NASA Watch 2009
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For SSTO to become real and to make sense, we need high energy-density propellants to minimize the structural mass fraction and do it without all kinds of airbreathing claptrap that has to operate in a truly rotten environment and yet be "easily" maintained.
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Arguably, in-lines go back as far as the sidelocks - just that in-lines continue to be modernized (like Clay's Savage, designed for smokeless propellants).
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Arguably, in-lines go back as far as the sidelocks - just that in-lines continue to be modernized (like Clay's Savage, designed for smokeless propellants).
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After his return to Britain and self-exile to Wiltshire, he invented a device capable of detecting tiny concentrations of substances in the atmosphere, including the CFCs then used as refrigerants and aerosol propellants.
James Lovelock wins Observer lifetime achievement at ethical awards 2011
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Also, people need to understand that short of a major redefinition of our understanding in physics (fusion power plants, gravitic propulsion, etc.) any cost reduction is going to be limited to trying to shave a few percentage points here and there to reduce losses in the combustion of cryogenic propellants.
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With ISRU derived propellants and with local industrial development along with local food production, we can change the entire cost structure of operating in cislunar space.
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