Definitions for rocket propellant
rocket pro·pel·lant

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1. rocket fuel, rocket propellant, rocket propellentnoun

   an explosive charge that propels a rocket

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1. Rocket propellant

   Rocket propellant is the reaction mass of a rocket. This reaction mass is ejected at the highest achievable velocity from a rocket engine to produce thrust. The energy required can either come from the propellants themselves, as with a chemical rocket, or from an external source, as with ion engines.

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1. rocket propellant

   Rocket propellant is a type of chemical substance used in a rocket engine to create a force that propels the rocket by following Newton’s third law of motion - for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. The propellant is burned, and the gases produced in the combustion are expelled from the rear of the rocket at high speeds, pushing the rocket forwards. Rocket propellants can be classified into two main types: liquid and solid propellants.

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1. Rocket propellant

   Rocket propellant is a material used by a rocket as, or to produce in a chemical reaction, the reaction mass that is ejected, typically with very high speed, from a rocket engine to produce thrust, and thus provide spacecraft propulsion. In a chemical rocket propellants undergo exothermic chemical reactions to produce hot gas. There may be a single propellant, or multiple propellants; in the latter case one can distinguish fuel and oxidizer. The gases produced expand and push on a nozzle, which accelerates them until they rush out of the back of the rocket at extremely high speed. For smaller attitude control thrusters, a compressed gas escapes the spacecraft through a propelling nozzle. A potential other method is that the propellant is not burned but just heated. In ion propulsion, the propellant is made of electrically charged atoms, which are electromagnetically pushed out of the back of the spacecraft. Magnetically accelerated ion drives are not usually considered to be rockets however, but a similar class of thrusters use electrical heating and magnetic nozzles. In pulse propulsion, a heavy, metallic base acquires the force from an explosion behind it, for example from an atomic bomb, and a transfers it to a dampening system that reduces the shock to the payload.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of rocket propellant in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of rocket propellant in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=rocket propellant
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   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Propellant
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4. ^ Wikidata
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