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How do rockets work? What chemicals are used and what reactions happens with those chemicals to make a rocket fly?

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Chemical rocket engines use a fuel (something to burn) and an oxidiser (something to react with the fuel). ... As the propellant reacts inside a combustion chamber, the chemical reaction produces hot gases. It is the ejection of these rapidly expanding hot gases at high speed from the rocket nozzle that

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