Sentence examples for a propellant from inspiring English sources

It is also widely used as a propellant in aerosol cans of whipped cream.

But it was banned a few years ago because it contained a propellant that was deemed environmentally harmful.

Cordite, a propellant of the double-base type, so called because of its customary but not universal cordlike shape.

(Both Autoliv and TRW now use a propellant based on guanidine nitrate, a compound that is less sensitive to moisture and temperature swings).

We're also working on technology that uses superheated water itself as a propellant, so you don't have to separate the oxygen and hydrogen".

But Primatene Mist, on the market for about 40 years, could be the next asthma inhaler banned because it uses a propellant harmful to the earth's ozone layer.

At this stage, there is no alternative to these hydrocarbons as a propellant, so there is no quick fix available that could render the aerosols safe.

The accident involved the nitrous oxide that Scaled Composites uses as a propellant, though there was no rocket test at the time.

They used a propellant gun, a laboratory device that can fire small projectiles at extremely high velocities to produce high-pressure shocks.

The gun and the rocket motor are types of heat engine, partially converting the chemical energy of a propellant into the kinetic energy of a projectile.

The Respimat device is a propellant-free inhaler to deliver aerosols from solutions.