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hypergol Astronaut.|ˈhaɪpəgɒl|
[a. G. hypergol (one of a series of terms ending in -ergol), app. f. hyper- + Gr. ἔργ-ον work + -ol 3.]
A hypergolic rocket propellant.
1947Jrnl. Brit. Interplanetary Soc. VI. 104 Fuels are broadly classified in three groups, monergols, hypergols and non-hypergols. Ibid. 105 The distinct property of hypergols is that the reaction is self-starting. 1950[see hydrazine]. 1969R. T. Holzmann Chemical Rockets ii. 140 The use of hypergols is both simple and safe.
So hyperˈgolic a., igniting spontaneously on contact with the oxidant or another propellant; also as n., a hypergol.
1947Jrnl. Brit. Interplanetary Soc. VI. 106 A third method is to inject auxiliary fuels, hypergolic or self-igniting monergolic, into the chamber before the main fuels. 1965Ibid. XX. 154/2 Ignition does not pose problems as the propellent is hypergolic. 1970N. Armstrong et al. First on Moon i. 28 During the second week of June it was time to start putting hypergolic propellants into the fuel tanks. Ibid. iv. 75 The self-igniting..hypergolics which went into the separate control systems of the command and service module and the lunar module. |