Definition of "liquid oxygen" []

• Oxygen in liquid form, as opposed to its gaseous form at standard temperature and pressure. (noun)

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• "Tank manufacturer Beech Aircraft Co. was supposed to have replaced a 28-volt thermostat switch that heated up the liquid oxygen with a 65-volt switch, but had failed to do it."
• "During the same 61C countdown, a malfunction of a different valve this time on the launchpad side of the plumbing caused the drain back of a large amount of liquid oxygen from the gas tank."
• "Along the way, “the father of cosmonautics” conceived of such advanced ideas as rocket staging, high-energy liquid propellants such as liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen, Earth-orbiting space stations, space suits for what would become known as “space walks,” and even self-sustaining ecological starships capable of intergalactic travel."