Editing Monopropellant (section)

{{Short description|Single-part rocket propellant}}
'''Monopropellants'''<ref>{{Cite book
  |quote=A rocket propellant consisting of a single substance, especially a liquid, capable of creating rocket thrust without the addition of a second substance.
  |author=Sybil P. Parker
  |title=McGraw-Hill dictionary of scientific and technical terms
  |edition=6
  |year=2003
  |publisher=McGraw-Hill
  |isbn=978-0-07-042313-8
  |page=1370}}</ref> are [[propellants]] consisting of chemicals that release energy through exothermic chemical decomposition. The molecular bond energy of the monopropellant is released usually through use of a catalyst. This can be contrasted with bipropellants that release energy through the chemical reaction between an oxidizer and a fuel. While stable under defined storage conditions, monopropellants decompose very rapidly under certain other conditions to produce a large volume of its own energetic (hot) gases for the performance of mechanical [[work (physics)|work]]. Although solid [[Wikt:deflagrant|deflagrant]]s such as [[nitrocellulose]], the most commonly used propellant in firearms, could be thought of as monopropellants, the term is usually reserved for liquids in engineering literature.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Vere|first=Ray|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YlhdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA223|title=Aviation Fuels Technology|publisher=Macmillan Education UK|year=1985|isbn=978-1-349-06904-0|page=223}}</ref>