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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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Refinery disruptions in Russia and the Middle East, along with reduced fuel exports from China, have constrained global supplies of distillate fuels and put upward pressure on prices — which some analysts expect to remain elevated through 2027.

— Sarah Agostino, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026
Future fuels built in The ships will also feature an LNG- and ammonia-ready design.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2026

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At higher energies, more mesons (pairs of quarks and their antimatter counterparts, antiquarks) are present.

— Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2026
My music can be appreciated by a lot of different people in a lot of different places and energies and moods.

— Kyle Denis, Billboard, 28 Sep. 2026

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