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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
- through rapid, confined burning of a propellant. This process of rapid ... is fired by the burning of the propellant, but in small arms rarely ...44 KB (7,015 words) - 19:53, 26 March 2024
- of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellant to the SSMEs. It is discarded ... as the burn continues, the weight of the propellant decreases and the thrust ...43 KB (6,281 words) - 15:42, 4 February 2023
- C Propellant explosive substance or other deflagrating explosive substance ... means that under extreme conditions, a propellant can detonate. For example ...41 KB (6,258 words) - 23:56, 24 March 2024
- prompted the FDA and EPA to ban CFCs as a propellant in 1978 (50 percent of CFC use at that time was for aerosol can propellant). *In January ...28 KB (4,251 words) - 19:11, 16 April 2023
- * It is used as a propellant along with silicon (for lubrication) in airsoft guns. == See also == *Alkanes *Hydrocarbons *Gasoline ...13 KB (1,941 words) - 00:08, 2 December 2022
- vitally important, the British cordite propellant tended to blow up their ... flooded, thereby preventing the fickle propellant from setting off a massive ...56 KB (8,672 words) - 09:48, 22 September 2023
- * Rocket propellant * Satellite * Space exploration * Space Shuttle * Space station * Space tourism * Yuri Gagarin == Notes == ==References== ...18 KB (2,454 words) - 19:05, 7 February 2023
- Transportation using off-Earth resources for propellant in relatively conventional rockets would be expected to massively reduce in-space transportation ...37 KB (5,482 words) - 22:47, 5 February 2023
- is needed in the production of cordite, a propellant needed to lob artillery shells. Germany had a corner on a key acetone ingredient, calcium acetate ...20 KB (3,067 words) - 05:52, 26 August 2023
- Aerosol spray propellant, used in whipped cream canisters or cooking spray, is a gas. Nitrous oxide is commonly used. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs ...20 KB (3,107 words) - 04:37, 18 April 2024
- are relatively inefficient in their use of propellant, this very well may not matter as the solar system is believed to have extremely large stores ...41 KB (6,343 words) - 19:56, 9 February 2023
- nitrate has also found use as a solid rocket propellant, but for a while ammonium perchlorate was frequently considered preferable due to higher performance ...18 KB (2,699 words) - 07:39, 25 July 2023
- and is used as an unreactive, nontoxic propellant. * Sulfur nitrides are chain and cyclic compounds containing only sulfur and nitrogen. Tetrasulfur ...22 KB (3,269 words) - 21:43, 26 February 2023
- The consumption of thruster propellant for station keeping places a limitation on the lifetime of the satellite. At the end of their service ...29 KB (4,580 words) - 01:05, 18 November 2022
- Gunpowder is a low-explosive substance that is used as a propellant in firearms. It burns rapidly and produces a large amount of gas, which produces ...24 KB (3,604 words) - 17:15, 12 July 2023
- radar; when a tank is identified, a rocket propellant is fired to shoot the projectile at the tank. These munitions will often descend by parachute ...26 KB (4,166 words) - 06:22, 31 July 2023
- lunar equator to minimize the amount of propellant required, clear of obstacles ... * reachable with a minimum amount of propellant; * allowing for delays ...97 KB (14,466 words) - 15:45, 11 August 2023
- and SPL has designed and tested liquid propellant rocket engines since 1998. Current work is focusing on the first prototype, the "Black ...31 KB (4,415 words) - 16:01, 27 November 2023
- In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an object that has been placed into orbit by human endeavor. Such objects are sometimes called ...35 KB (4,993 words) - 00:11, 8 January 2024
- chamber and contained well packed black powder propellant. A rocket carrying about one pound of powder could travel almost 1,000 yards. In contrast, ...44 KB (6,987 words) - 23:40, 30 April 2023
- Solution to the Problem of the Liquid Propellant Rocket (dated April 16, 1934) was kept classified by the Army, and was not published until 1960 ...47 KB (7,340 words) - 17:15, 4 May 2023
- seconds of propellant burn time left.Manned Spacecraft Center, [https://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/A11_MissionReport.pdf Apollo 11 Mission Report ...110 KB (16,075 words) - 19:19, 31 July 2023
