Launching-pad fuel

Usage examples of propellant.

The multiphase device discovered nothing indicative of weapons, propellants, or explosives.

For example, Iraq built a facility for the production of ammonium perchlorate, a key ingredient in solid missile propellant, indicating that work continues on advanced solid-fuel multistage missiles.

Solid propellant rockets are so simple and storable that a five-stage hypervelocity bird could be depended upon after years of storage.

The men in the mortar platoon also went burdened with a mortar tube or baseplate, or a packframe loaded with 66 mm mortar bombs, plus propellant horseshoes.

The fish nearest our stern released a burst of propellant from its blowhole, and drifted closer to the drive shaft.

The culverin had, under his supervision, been fully charged with propellant powder and several thick wads, but no shot, for these coastal waters wherein the ships lay at anchor were heavily traveled, and no one wished to chance hulling or demasting some hapless, helpless fisherman by accident.

The one fusion reactor on the world powered most of the manufacturing, including the boosters and propellant for the shuttles and for the tugs to capture the orbiting masses of rock which had arrived from earth instead of ships when jumps went backward.

And its ammunition uses a propellant whose cook-off point is one hundred degrees higher than the standard nitrocellulose powders which-was She waved a dismissing hand.

Shot that caseless ammo looked like wax crayons, plastic propellant molded around alloy flechettes like big nails.

The brilliant circles of twenty propellant tails flashed past, then multiplied into many times that number as the decoys deployed.

His idea of borrowing propellant tanks from one of the landers was not as far-fetched as it seemed, but it had still been a gamble.

Using the pliers of the Leatherman, I eventually pulled the heads off the three rounds and poured the dark grain propellant onto the under.

Though we had propellant to spare for docking maneuvers, pride would require him to mate properly on the first pass.

William Collier was, before he lost his reason, a multitalented and highly intelligent man, innovative, well read in many fields, and holding university degrees which included a doctorate or two in chemistry, in which field he also had done certain amounts of research for his government, involving propellants.

Marcus had collected enough solvents, acids, propellants, and other chemicals to make a fairly noxious smoke bomb combined with an aerosol herbicide, the same kind she had used sparingly on her garden on Pacifica.