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
  • These fuels must remain in insulated tanks at very low temperatures to stay in liquid form.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 July 2026
  • Schmidt Automotive Research said in a report in the second quarter Chinese brands across all fuels outsold Japanese brands for the first time by 352,098 to 350,186.
    — Neil Winton, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of fuels
Noun
  • For the Surrealists, fans of Marx and Freud, such energies could be more healthily—and liberally—expressed.
    — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 17 July 2026
  • So computer engineers work hard to make computers immune to noise, by switching bits at energies far above the random ripples of the environment.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 15 July 2026
Definition of energies

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