Definition of "hydrogen peroxide" []

• A colorless, heavy, strongly oxidizing liquid, H2O2, capable of reacting explosively with combustibles and used principally in aqueous solution as a mild antiseptic, a bleaching agent, an oxidizing agent, and a laboratory reagent. (noun)

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• "In the lunar mode, as stated earlier, lift was provided by a pair of controllable 500-pound-thrust rockets noncombustion rockets using a 90 percent solution of hydrogen peroxide as fuel that were fixed to the fuselage outside the gimbal ring."
• "Hussein, Zein al-Abideen Mohamed, see Abu Zubaydah hydrogen peroxide bombs, 207–8, 243"
• "We usually need a chemical like bleach (no!) or hydrogen peroxide (better) to get a desirably light shade of paper."