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propellants

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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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Scientists warn that climate change caused in part by the burning of fuels like gasoline, oil and coal is exacerbating the frequency and intensity of heat and dryness, making certain regions more vulnerable to wildfires.

— Suman Naishadham, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
There are currently two active fuels and fire behavior advisories covering the west slope, front range, and Southeast of Colorado, southern Wyoming, eastern Nevada, Utah, and the Arizona strip.

— Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 10 July 2026

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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

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