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pressurant

pressurant noun: a gas used to drive a fluid through a fluid system.

Noun

pressurant (plural pressurants)

  1. A gas used to drive a fluid through a fluid system.
    • The helium pressurant supplies the energy for the propellant transport from the tanks to the combustion chamber.
    • During tank pressurization under some circumstances, rapid mixing of relatively warm pressurant gas with cryogenic propellant can lead to rapid densification of the gas and loss of pressure in the tank.

Forms of pressurant

pluralpressurants

Questions about pressurant

What does pressurant mean?
Pressurant means a gas used to drive a fluid through a fluid system.
What part of speech is pressurant?
Pressurant is a noun.
What is the plural of pressurant?
The plural of pressurant is pressurants.

Words near pressurant in the dictionary

  1. presstitutes
  2. presstitution
  3. pressurage
  4. pressurages
  5. pressural
  6. pressurant
  7. pressurants
  8. pressure
  9. pressure altimeter
  10. pressure altimeters
  11. pressure altitude

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