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- A propellant (or propellent) is a m**** that is expelled or expanded in such a way as to create a thrust or another motive force in accordance with Newton's...
- hypergolic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A hypergolic propellant is a rocket propellant combination used in a rocket engine, whose components spontaneously...
- Rocket propellant is the reaction m**** of a rocket. This reaction m**** is ejected at the highest achievable velocity from a rocket engine to produce thrust...
- A solid-propellant rocket or solid rocket is a rocket with a rocket engine that uses solid propellants (fuel/oxidizer). The earliest rockets were solid-fuel...
- liquid-propellant rocket or liquid rocket utilizes a rocket engine burning liquid propellants. (Alternate approaches use gaseous or solid propellants.) Liquids...
- Smokeless powder is a type of propellant used in firearms and artillery that produces less smoke and less fouling when fired compared to black powder....
- cartridge case that typically holds the primer, propellant and projectile together as a unit. Instead, the propellant and primer are ****ed to the projectile...
- A propellant tank is a container which is part of a vehicle, where propellant is stored prior to use. Propellant tanks vary in construction, and may be...
- to exhaust expelled at high speed. Rocket engines work entirely from propellant carried within the vehicle; therefore a rocket can fly in the vacuum of...
- The highest specific impulse chemical rockets use liquid propellants (liquid-propellant rockets). They can consist of a single chemical (a monopropellant)...