Examples of propellant in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective The driver's side air bag inflator may explode due to propellant degradation occurring after long-term exposure to high absolute humidity, high temperatures, and high temperature cycling. — Detroit Free Press, 20 Mar. 2021 The driver's side air bag inflator may explode due to propellant degradation occurring after long-term exposure to high absolute humidity, high temperatures, and high temperature cycling. — Detroit Free Press, 20 Mar. 2021 The driver's side air bag inflator may explode due to propellant degradation occurring after long-term exposure to high absolute humidity, high temperatures, and high temperature cycling. — Detroit Free Press, 20 Mar. 2021 The driver's side air bag inflator may explode due to propellant degradation occurring after long-term exposure to high absolute humidity, high temperatures, and high temperature cycling. — Detroit Free Press, 20 Mar. 2021 The driver's side air bag inflator may explode due to propellant degradation occurring after long-term exposure to high absolute humidity, high temperatures, and high temperature cycling. — Detroit Free Press, 20 Mar. 2021 The driver's side air bag inflator may explode due to propellant degradation occurring after long-term exposure to high absolute humidity, high temperatures, and high temperature cycling. — Detroit Free Press, 20 Mar. 2021 The driver's side air bag inflator may explode due to propellant degradation occurring after long-term exposure to high absolute humidity, high temperatures, and high temperature cycling. — Detroit Free Press, 20 Mar. 2021 The driver's side air bag inflator may explode due to propellant degradation occurring after long-term exposure to high absolute humidity, high temperatures, and high temperature cycling. — USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2021 Recent Examples on the Web: Noun The new prototype included enhanced avionics and propellant architecture as well as a new Raptor engine design and configuration. — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 5 May 2021 By venting propellant gases out the rear, the 75mm had almost no recoil and no need for a weighty breech block, which meant it could be carried by a soldier—or, in this case, even an Italian motor scooter. — Cory Graff, Popular Mechanics, 30 Nov. 2020 To produce rockets, Hamas chemists and engineers mix propellant from fertilizer, oxidizer and other ingredients in makeshift factories. — Fox News, 20 May 2021 Liquid oxygen generated for rocket propellant is particularly difficult to store on the Martian surface. — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 28 Mar. 2021 These would set up a power system and put in operation units for converting Martian carbon dioxide and water ice into methane and oxygen rocket propellant, which would be stored in tanks. — Robert Zubrin, Scientific American, 25 Mar. 2021 Otherwise, bringing enough propellant—which is three quarters oxygen—to get home just isn’t feasible. — Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 1 Mar. 2021 It’s also about rocket propellant, of which oxygen is usually a major component. — Sarah Scoles, Wired, 18 Feb. 2021 Both objects resemble Composite-Overwrapped Pressure Vessels, which are tanks that hold hydrogen at about 6,000 pounds per square inch to pressurize the propellant used in the rocket. — Theresa Machemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Apr. 2021

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