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Rockets consume a wide variety of fuel. One standard rule is that there must be an oxidizer and a fuel.

The most simple formula is hydrogen burning with oxygen, which produces water vapor (H2+O2 -->H2O). The Space Shuttle burns hydrogen and oxygen in its main engines, the solid rocket boosters burn ammonium perchlorate, aluminum, iron oxide, a polymer of some kind, and epoxy.

The V2 rocket from World War II burned an ethanol/water mix and liquid oxygen (C2H6O+H2O+O2-->CO2+H20). The water was meant to slow the reaction.

The Apollo Lunar Lander used Aerozine 50 (C2H8N2+H4N2) and Nitrogen Tetroxide (N2O4).

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