The use of solvents, propellants and gases for intoxication is not controlled by law.
To that end, NASA will spend billions of dollars developing new engines, propellants, life-support systems and the like.
For his rockets (their longest range so far is about a kilometre) he uses propellants, also from fertiliser.
The Ariane's core stage, which is prepared in northern France, uses liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen as its propellants.
But the real propellants are those investors, insurers and businesses that have calculated the risks and assessed the opportunities.
The Electromagnetic Railgun (EMRG) is a high-risk, yet high-payoff technology that uses electricity rather than chemical propellants to launch projectiles.
Nuclear warheads, missiles and bombs are flight-tested by being launched or dropped to see if the propellants and guidance systems work.
"Extraction of propellants, bulk shielding and life support fluids from this first captured asteroid could jump-start an entire space-based industry, " the Keck team writes.
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Its engines are fueled partly by methane, which the agency says is easier to handle and store than other propellants such as liquid hydrogen or hydrazine.
Nitrogen tetroxide and monomethyl hydrazine are "hypergolic" propellants, meaning they ignite spontaneously when they come in contact with each other, a useful property for maneuvering systems.
What is more, most of the 13 tonnes is made up by the propellants unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH) and dinitrogen tetroxide (DTO), both of which are toxic.
Warrant Officer class 2 Mike Brazier, who worked with Capt Bidulph, said the propellants, which are attached to shells, could have degraded with age and made it fall short.
Utah regulators are working on a set of plans to limit everyday emissions, including a measure to ban the sale of aerosol deodorants and hair spray that contain hydrocarbon propellants.
Not to mention focus: In court documents Bruce accused Ron of using money from Harry Winston to fund some of his considerable outside pursuits, which include rocket propellants, metallurgy, moviemaking and poetry.
The propellants, unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH) and dinitrogen tetroxide (DTO), are highly toxic but they will almost certainly be consumed in the fireball that engulfs Phobos-Grunt when it makes its death dive to Earth.
During the hearing, the inquest also heard the shell had been manufactured in 1981 and propellants could have degraded with age, but on Thursday the MoD said the shell was two to three years old.
It was the presence of a large quantity of toxic propellants on the returning spy satellite USA-193 that the American government used to justify its decision to shoot down the spacecraft with a missile in 2008.
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