Crossword-Solution: PROPELLANTS
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Rocketry substances | 1 answer |
| Explosive charges | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MEAZCE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PROPELLANTS (5)
Not fishhooks and boot buckles, either--blasting explosives and propellants, contragravity-field generator parts, power tools, pharmaceuticals, synthetic textiles.
They make nitroglycerine, like all the thalassic peoples; they also make TNT and catastrophite, and propellants.
Black powder (above) is a mechanical mixture; modern propellants are chemical compounds.] Other factors had to be taken into account, such as whether the powder was coarse-or fine-grained; and a short gun got less powder than a long one.
Modern _propellants_ are low explosives (that is, relatively slow burning), but _projectiles_ may be loaded with high explosive, a--Flake, b--Strip, c--Pellet, d--Single perforation, e--Standard, 7-perforation, f--Burning grain of 7-perforation type.
Those explosives, whose function is thus to burst with a sudden shock, are called High Explosives, as distinguished from the propellants which produce a more or less sustained push.
Quotes with PROPELLANTS (1)
You need propellants to accelerate toward Mars, then to decelerate at Mars, again to re-accelerate from Mars to Earth, and finally to decelerate back at Earth. Accordingly, the mass of these required propellants, in short, drives our need for innovative launch vehicles.
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Appears in: WSJ.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2017).