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  • noun Plural form of proppant.

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Examples

  • The so-called proppants allow oil and gas to seep out of shale; without guar, they would settle at the bottom of wells.

    Farmer Says: Hitch Your Wagons to Some 'Guar' Ryan Dezember 2011

  • The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation lists more than 200 ingredients sometimes used in fracking, including biocides to kill well bacteria, "proppants" to pry open rocks, and "crosslinkers" to facilitate proppants.

    The American Prospect Articles 2010

  • The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation lists more than 200 ingredients sometimes used in fracking, including biocides to kill well bacteria, "proppants" to pry open rocks, and "crosslinkers" to facilitate proppants.

    The American Prospect Articles 2010

  • "GengSheng" develops, manufactures and markets a broad range of high-tech industrial material products, including monolithic refractories, industrial ceramics and fracture proppants.

    unknown title 2011

  • "GengSheng" develops, manufactures and markets a broad range of high-tech industrial material products, including monolithic refractories, industrial ceramics and fracture proppants.

    China GengSheng Minerals, Inc. Announces $10 Million Registered Direct Offering - Yahoo! Finance 2011

  • The industry will boost its consumption of sand and other proppants 20 percent this year to as much as 100 billion pounds 45 million kilograms

    unknown title 2012

  • "GengSheng" develops, manufactures and markets a broad range of high-tech industrial material products, including monolithic refractories, industrial ceramics, fracture proppants and fine precision abrasives.

    unknown title 2011

  • A friend of mine runs Cudd, which is a frac company that's a subsidiary of Rawlings and he's been to India to look at - talk to their suppliers for ore beams which is the principal element of the gels, to Michigan and Canada for Ottawa sand and alternative mines for proppants.

    unknown title 2011

  • Signed five-year strategic partnership agreement with a North American fracture proppants distributor to develop and market GengSheng's fracture proppant products in

    unknown title 2011

  • The increase in fracture proppants sales was mainly due to increased production capacity and growth in export sales, driven by strong demand from our US customers who use our proppant products in their new natural gas exploration technologies.

    unknown title 2011

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  • Whenever I see this word, I have a mental image of propellers and pants.  I think MC Hammer could only wear proppants.

    January 1, 2015

  • inapproppants on ssaturday

    January 1, 2015