How to Use oxidizer in a Sentence

oxidizer

noun

• The propellants — the fuel and oxidizer — weigh the most.
  — Amy Shira Teitel, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2018
• The fuel and oxidizer need to be loaded on-site ahead of launch, which can be time-consuming.
  — Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
• In this case the effervescent tablet is the fuel and water the oxidizer.
  — Renee Morad, Scientific American, 7 Sep. 2017
• And a new thermal oxidizer, which heats waste to 2,000 degrees.
  — New York Times, 20 Oct. 2021
• To prevent this from happening in the future, SpaceX has isolated these systems and changed the types of valves that control the flow of the oxidizer.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, WIRED, 15 July 2019
• La Salle police said that a green-colored oxidizer had been released in the area and warned residents not to touch the substance.
  — Gina Martinez, CBS News, 11 Jan. 2023
• After all, rockets bring along their own oxidizers, so why not race cars?
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 29 June 2018
• Moisture mixing with the oxidizer caused corrosion along some of the valves.
  — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2023
• Rather than force their way through this pressure wave, ramjets suck it in, using the abundant oxygen in it as an oxidizer.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 17 Oct. 2019
• The solid propellant, infused with fuel and oxidizer, can whip up a lot of thrust in a hurry.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 10 Apr. 2018
• The Starship vehicle will be filled up with more than 10 million pounds of fuel and oxidizer.
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 20 Apr. 2023
• The most challenging parts of any rocket are the engine and the plumbing to reliably and rapidly feed it oxidizer and fuel.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 4 Aug. 2020
• Fuel and oxidizer are mixed at the top end of the chamber and ignited to produce super hot gas that is forced through the exhaust to generate lift.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 4 Dec. 2020
• The Tuesday test had been delayed for several days due to a problem with an oxidizer tank sensor.
  — Dasl Yoon, WSJ, 21 June 2022
• This wasn't science just for science's sake but a quest to find new oxidizers and fuels for rocket engines to make better missiles or space probes.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 4 Feb. 2018
• The line feeding liquid oxygen into the rocket engine breached, and, without a supply of oxidizer, the kerosene fuel would not burn.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 6 Oct. 2020
• Unlike rockets, planes don’t require an oxidizer to fly to high altitudes, which also helps cut down on the rocket’s mass and reduces the cost of an orbital launch.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, WIRED, 10 July 2019
• For years the agency pursued a hybrid rocket fueled by paraffin wax and a liquid oxidizer.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 21 Nov. 2019
• The helium tanks with the faulty anchors were inside the upper stage's oxidizer tank, which was filled with liquid oxygen needed for the rocket's ignition.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 7 Jan. 2022
• The leak caused liquid oxidizer —a key component in the vehicle’s propellant — to cross over into the wrong set of pipes, the pressurization system.
  — Chabeli Herrera, orlandosentinel.com, 15 July 2019
• The autophage engine consumes a propellant rod that has solid fuel on the outside and oxidizer on the inside, according to PhysOrg.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 1 June 2018
• Nine months have passed since a standard pre-flight check of the spacecraft, then sitting atop a rocket on a launch pad in Florida, found that 13 of 24 oxidizer valves within Starliner's propulsion system were stuck.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 4 May 2022
• During a test in April 2019, a leak of oxidizer just prior to ignition of these SuperDraco thrusters led to an explosion that destroyed a spacecraft.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 7 June 2022
• Prior to launch, the telescope was fueled with 240 liters of hydrazine fuel and dinitrogen tetroxide oxidizer.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 14 Jan. 2022
• According to Stegman’s calculations, a full-scale Fenris engine could reduce the amount of oxidizer a rocket needs to carry by around 20 percent.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Ars Technica, 27 June 2020
• Solid-fuel rockets, as their name suggests, use a combined oxidizer and fuel in a solid matrix.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2018
• These reddish clouds were caused by nitrogen tetroxide, the oxidizer that combusts with hydrazine fuel.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 8 Sep. 2020
• Nevertheless, this approach turns out to be remarkably efficient, largely because there is no need for an oxidizer and all the power comes from Earth.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2022
• Something must have caused methane propellant to ignite inside the vehicle, with the ambient oxygen in the air serving as an oxidizer.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 15 July 2022
• Rather than letting gravity push the fuel and oxidizer into the combustion chamber, these engines used a smaller tank of a pressurizing gas to force both fluids into the combustion chamber, keeping the pressure higher.
  — Amy Shira Teitel, Discover Magazine, 11 Aug. 2017

Last Updated: 13 Oct 2024