Word: relighted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vacuum Extinguisher. If the power is to be cut off entirely, it can be done by extinguishing the rocket's fire. This is almost impossible at atmospheric pressure; if the flaming propellant is extinguished, it tends to relight. But in the vacuum of space all that is necessary is to blow off the rocket's nozzle. The vacuum outside strikes into the rocket's heart. The hot combustion gases are sucked away from the unburned fuel so quickly that they do not heat it to the kindling point. The rocket's fire goes out instantly...
...operations in the Youngstown, Ohio district rose to 64% of capacity v. 56% the week before, hundreds of workers trooped back to work. Furnaces glowed again: U.S. Steel relit a blast furnace at its Youngstown works and two open hearths in Pittsburgh; Bethlehem Steel planned to relight four or five open hearths at its Lackawanna works near Buffalo...