A reaction wheel is a type of flywheel used primarily by spacecraft for attitude control without using fuel for rockets or other reaction devices.
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“The excessive increase of anything often causes a reaction in the opposite direction.”
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“Let the wheel spin out,
Till all created things
With shout and answering shout
Cast off rememberings....”
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