WordNet
rocket fuel
n. an explosive charge that propels a rocket [syn: rocket propellant, rocket propellent]
Usage examples of "rocket fuel".
But it did seem that the Harper-Erickson process, with its concomitant of a round-the-globe rocket and a practical economical rocket fuel, had at last made it a very present thing, so close indeed that I did not object when the early allotments of fuel from the satellite were earmarked for industrial power.
The multiple blasts had leveled most everything, so all he had to do was avoid the larger pools of burning rocket fuel and continue on.
He was going faster than any man in history, and it was almost silent up here, since he had exhausted his rocket fuel, and he was so high in such a vast space that there was no sensation of motion.