What is "reactant"

Usage examples of "reactant".

Tom, and tell Astro to get the reactant pile from the firing chamber ready for dumping when the hot-soup wagon gets here.

The Solar Guard officer referred to the lead-lined jet sled that removed the reactant piles from all ships that were to be laid up for longer than three days.

Knowing how to operate an atomic rocket motor was one thing, but understanding what went on inside the reactant pile was something else entirely.

At a D-9 rate the reactant is hot enough to create power for normal flight.

If you return here with less than a quarter supply of reactant fuel, you will be disqualified.

The lead baffles around the reactant chambers had become loose and the reactant was spilling out, starting to wildcat.

Academy, I failed to register a protest about someone dumping impure reactant into my feeders.

Once, when a rocket scout crew was threatened with exploding reactant mass, he calmly told them to blast off into a desolate spot in space and blow up.

Loring and Mason came out of the reactant chamber carrying a small lead box.

When they reached an altitude of a thousand miles above the surface of the planet, Loring maneuvered the jet boat into position outside the ship and placed the crude reactant bomb inside.

On the morning of the fourth day he walked into the radar bridge where Roger and Alfie had been working steadily for seventy-two hours on an electronic fuse to trigger the reactant units.

Strong and Tom heard the hiss of the reactant mass feeding into the rocket motors, and the screeching whine of the mighty pumps that kept the mass from building too rapidly and exploding.

Astro, indicating the hatch in the floor of the power deck that lead to the reactant chamber.

Ordinary Terexians had by now come to regard all humanity roughly in the light of a well-intentioned but stupid child, a viewpoint that was cheerfully brought home at a gathering on the afternoon of the very day that the remaining stability of the transient atomic reactant dwindled down into the minutes and seconds.

However, there is little to be gained by adding more catalyst, even just the right catalyst which this was not, when the supply of reactant is nearly gone.