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To: Capitalist Eric

An engine converts chemical energy into mechanical energy, while a motor converts electrical (or magenetic) energy into mechanical energy...

Unless it's a solid fuel rocket -- which is called a rocket motor.

65 posted on 12/16/2003 8:16:20 PM PST by Dan Evans
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To: Dan Evans
Unless it's a solid fuel rocket -- which is called a rocket motor.

This is true- to people who aren't engineers, and don't understand the difference.

82 posted on 12/16/2003 9:18:18 PM PST by Capitalist Eric (Noise proves nothing. Often the hen who merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.)
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