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- Rocket propellant is the material used by a rocket engine to generate thrust. The most common propellants consist of a fuel and an oxidizer that ...24 KB (3,649 words) - 02:28, 16 December 2022
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- Rocket propellant is the material used by a rocket engine to generate thrust. The most common propellants consist of a fuel and an oxidizer that ...24 KB (3,649 words) - 02:28, 16 December 2022
- has been used as a refrigerant, an aerosol spray propellant, an anesthetic, and a blowing agent for foam packaging. For a time it was used as a promoter ...7 KB (906 words) - 17:08, 10 December 2023
- is useful as a refrigerant and as a propellant in aerosol sprays. It is used, for instance, in household refrigerators and freezers, largely ...10 KB (1,437 words) - 18:43, 23 November 2023
- effects. It is an aerosol spray propellant in cooking sprays and whipped ... containers which use nitrous oxide as a propellant for whipped cream, from ...20 KB (2,927 words) - 02:28, 16 November 2022
- purpose fuel, refrigerant, aerosol spray propellant, and a medium for chemical ... purpose fuel, refrigerant, aerosol spray propellant, medium for chemical reactions ...15 KB (2,285 words) - 04:31, 22 March 2024
- showed designs of a missile using liquid propellant with a range of 180 miles ... Oberth later worked on solid-propellant anti-aircraft rockets. At ...13 KB (1,938 words) - 10:20, 22 January 2024
- Food additives are substances added to food to preserve flavor or improve its taste and appearance. Some additives have been used for centuries—for ...5 KB (720 words) - 06:15, 1 April 2024
- In chemically powered rockets, the combustion of propellant produces ... and liquid hydrogen as a nearly optimal propellant pair and determined that ...39 KB (5,911 words) - 02:27, 16 December 2022
- ===Use as a propellant=== peroxide into steam and oxygen. The propellant is pumped into a reaction ...32 KB (4,734 words) - 13:20, 4 February 2023
- The use of explosions, flashes, smoke, flames or other propellant driven effects on-stage is known as "Proximate Pyrotechnics." The ...6 KB (877 words) - 03:53, 7 December 2022
- rocket, these pieces correspond to the ejected propellant; if we were to measure the total mass of the rocket and its propellant, we would find that ...19 KB (3,055 words) - 16:18, 7 November 2022
- cannon. This device used black powder as a propellant for a projectile.]] Another early use of saltpeter explosives as a weapon was the "fire ...14 KB (2,154 words) - 14:28, 8 February 2022
- which holds all parts together; 3. the propellant, or gunpowder;4. the rim ... generated by the rapid combustion of the propellant charge that leaks past ...22 KB (3,492 words) - 18:43, 22 November 2023
- trigger the ignition of a gas generator propellant to rapidly inflate a nylon ... the initiator is used to ignite solid propellant inside the air bag inflator ...35 KB (5,475 words) - 07:00, 16 June 2023
- charge, the gunpowder that serves as the propellant, the percussion cap that ... this is the combination of bullet, propellant, primer, and cartridge ...18 KB (2,918 words) - 17:14, 26 July 2023
- record of artillery with gunpowder propellant used on the battlefield ... These variations included barrel wear, propellant temperature, different ...76 KB (11,884 words) - 17:42, 16 August 2023
- replaced chlorofluorocarbons as an aerosol spray propellant, and acetic acid. == Health and safety == Methanol can enter the body by ingestion ...20 KB (2,894 words) - 16:26, 9 November 2022
- and experimental relations between propellant, rocket mass, thrust and ... had already been published in Liquid-Propellant Rocket Development. This ...27 KB (4,141 words) - 21:27, 16 April 2023
- === Propellant === One major use of CFCs has been as propellants in aerosol inhalers for drugs used to treat asthma. The conversion of these devices ...35 KB (5,199 words) - 23:36, 3 August 2023
- Nitroglycerin (NG)—also known as nitroglycerine, trinitroglycerin, and glyceryl trinitrate—is a heavy, colorless, oily liquid obtained by ...11 KB (1,527 words) - 02:27, 16 November 2022
