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
  • Demand fuels expansion Equinix has increased capital spending from about $2 billion a few years ago to $7 billion, driven by growing customer demand, Adaggra said.
    — Jenny Lee, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Hegseth’s lead in the market comes as his role in the Iran war fuels calls for his ouster.
    — Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of fuels
Noun
  • As the plasma gets hotter, its nuclei move faster, and a greater proportion of encounters occur at energies favorable for fusion.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 31 Oct. 2026
  • Using a form of spectroscopy, the team then tracked changes in the electrons' energies over trillionths of a second.
    — Sven Badoux, New Atlas, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of energies

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“Propellants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/propellants. Accessed 10 Nov. 2026.

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