0 something that gives you energy or encourages you to do something, or that encourages something to happen: --
In those days speed enjoyed a vogue as an energy-producing rocket fuel for naughty boys and girls to stay up and party all night.
A drop of rocket fuel eased the last few miles to the hostel.
The dawning realization that his childhood world was founded upon a lie provided the rocket fuel that propelled him into writing.
Stage trees have a core of solid rocket fuel in their trunks that they ignite when mature to disperse their seeds.
This uses a double-hulled rocket nozzle that allows the rocket fuel to circulate as a coolant.
However, this combination is impractical; see rocket fuel.
These include bumper spikes, land mines and rocket fuel.
It is a common liquid rocket fuel for rocket applications and can be used as a fuel in an internal combustion engine or fuel cell.
They are used extensively within the pyrotechnics industry, and ammonium perchlorate is also a component of solid rocket fuel.
Also, one of the first large-scale applications of the liquid polysulfides was as a binder for rocket fuel, from 1946 until 1958.
Of special interest is the conversion to hydrazine (normally used as a high-energy rocket fuel, and poisonous to most living organisms) as an intermediate.
