propellants

noun

variants also propellents
plural of propellant
as in fuels

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Recent Examples of propellants Pressurized helium is routinely used in rockets to push propellants to engines and to help clean and dry tanks and propellant lines when needed. — William Harwood, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2026
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  1. fuels
  2. energies
Noun
  • The frequency and intensity of heat waves are supercharged by climate change, which comes from the burning of fuels like coal, oil and gas.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 July 2026
  • Its initial growth was fueled by wind and dry fuels, Forsgren said.
    — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 16 July 2026
Definition of fuels
Noun
  • Colliding protons at record-setting energies of almost 14 trillion electron volts (TeV), the LHC became the world’s most powerful collider and redrew the map of experimental particle physics.
    — Florencia Canelli, Scientific American, 1 July 2026
  • This is turning into a strange tournament for Germany, full of duelling energies.
    — Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 26 June 2026
Definition of energies

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