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propellant
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propellant [prə′pel·ənt]
(materials)
A combustible substance that produces heat and supplies ejection particles as in a rocket engine.
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Because you've got that small continuous force it gives you vantage points for observation that you can't get with conventional spacecraft because you would run out of propellent fairly quickly," he said.
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Thursday during a routine test of a propellent flow system for a new space tourism vehicle at a Mojave Desert airport site used by Scaled Composites LLC.
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The force of the propellent inside - which could have been firework material or gunpowder - blew off one end of the bomb inside the letterbox, the court heard.
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