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What does LOX stand for?

Liquid Oxygen


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Samples in periodicals archive:
The ice-frost ramps (IFR) protect brackets along the external tank from development of ice when super-cold liquid oxygen and hydrogen are loaded prior to launch.
While Big Sam was starting a tsunami in the jacuzzi at Champneys, his players emerged from shivering three-minute sessions in the kriotherapy chamber, where liquid oxygen is pumped into a tank like dry ice, with more than just their reputations shrivelled.
The 13,800-pound thrust engine uses extremely cold liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen as propellants.
The Space Shuttle carries 383,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen weighing 226,000 lbs, and 143,000 gallons of liquid oxygen weighing just under 1.
Linde has also had many complaints from angry patients that the portable liquid oxygen cylinders are unsafe as they easily tip over and leak highly flammable oxygen.
Barely a year ago, NASA selected BTi to help produce liquid oxygen from lunar rock.
Dr Howells reportedly told the AM a 10-week delay in responding to his concerns about NHS availability of liquid oxygen supplies for lung disease sufferers like ex-miners did not indicate professionalism.
This incomplete procedure is a dangerous practice because it voids the LOX cart's closed-loop system and allows liquid oxygen to spray out like a geyser.

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