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Thrust is proportional to how much mass is being thrown and how fast it is being thrown out. SRBs have ridiculous mass flow because propelling gasses are being generated all along the length of the booster rather than a relatively smaller injection plate on a liquid propellant engine. SRBs suffer a penalty by lower exhaust velocities but the mass flow rate outweighs it heavily.

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