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Word: contrail (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1949-1949
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...away from the B29. For an instant it drove forward and downward. Then Chuck turned on the nitrogen pressure and fired the lox and alcohol in one of the rocket chambers. A spurt of white dots (visible shock waves) spurted out behind and grew into a long plumelike "contrail" (condensed water vapor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Man in a Hurry | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

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