rocket fuel
Example Sentences
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It can be broken into hydrogen and oxygen to produce rocket fuel, sparing tomorrow’s explorers the need to carry enough for the trip home.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
A successful launch could give the market some much-needed rocket fuel.
From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026
Social media has been particularly unkind to teenage girls, putting rocket fuel onto the ordinary adolescent stressors of physical awkwardness, the sadness of comparison and the fireworks of inter-friendship conflicts.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026
Depending on the type of rocket fuel used, launches produce nitrogen oxides, chlorine, black carbon particles, water vapor, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide — and no propellant avoids creating of some kind of emissions.
From Salon • Apr. 4, 2025
The Big Store had just about everything anybody in Coalwood needed, but would it have rocket fuel?
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
