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- noun Plural form of
propellent .
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Examples
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Hybrids have also been demonstrated with HTPB and O2 as well as propellents with things like parafin (see Mythbusters) and sausages.
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It was of course revived in the nineties when Weatherby very much needed something else to sell to stay afloat and had new propellents to give the big case a couple hundred feet per second or so more zip.
Over the years I have owned a considerable number of rifles but never a Weatherby. 2009
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Beside the rugged barrel of a muzzleloader, another reason the barrel didn't fail is that the propellents used for frontstuffers fall into the category of low explosives -- versus smokeless powder (= "propellets") versus high explosives (= definitely not gun material).
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Will it be propellents that provide more energy and lower pressure or some super slick space age metal that reduces friction in the bore?
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It was of course revived in the nineties when Weatherby very much needed something else to sell to stay afloat and had new propellents to give the big case a couple hundred feet per second or so more zip.
Over the years I have owned a considerable number of rifles but never a Weatherby. 2009
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Beside the rugged barrel of a muzzleloader, another reason the barrel didn't fail is that the propellents used for frontstuffers fall into the category of low explosives -- versus smokeless powder (= "propellets") versus high explosives (= definitely not gun material).
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  Operationally responsive ie fast launch has become an increasingly important national security objective, so demonstrating rapid loading of propellents and launch in less than an hour, as well as a rapid recycle following the first engine ignition are major accomplishments.
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One part in one hundred thousand million of the energy of their propellents they released to run the engines, and they carried fuel in such vast quantities that they staggered under its load as they left the ground!
The Black Star Passes John Wood Campbell 1940
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Patients using inhalers will be able to buy alternative inhalers containing the same drugs, but using different propellents - most notably hydrofluoroalkane, which is destroyed in the atmosphere before it can reach the ozone layer.
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I attribute this to the less expensive propellents used in the ammunition.
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