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mass ratio

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noun

  1. the ratio of the mass of a fully-fuelled rocket at liftoff to the mass of the rocket without fuel

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The mass ratio of the newly found planet with its host star is more than 100 times higher than that of Earth and the sun.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 30, 2023

The material also reduced those dye concentrations in the water by 90% and 64%, respectively, in just 30 minutes, when the starting catalyst to dye mass ratio was 1 to 1.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2023

Using some theoretical results enabled them to determine the deuteron to proton mass ratio to 4.5 parts per trillion, they report in a paper in press at Physical Review Letters.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 30, 2021

It is worth noting that although all samples of a particular compound have the same mass ratio, the converse is not true in general.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

My interpretation of the definitions of specific impulse and mass ratio especially seemed to impress him.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

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