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chemical rocket

noun

Etymology

From chemical + rocket.

  1. derived from *rukkô✻ — “a distaff, a staff with flax fibres tied loosely to it, used in spinning thread”
  2. derived from *rokkō✻
  3. derived from rocko — “spinning wheel”
  4. derived from rocchetta
  5. compounded as chemical rocket — “chemical + rocket”

Definitions

  1. a rocket that uses a chemical reaction of its propellants to generate its gaseous exhaust

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