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  • Thumbnail for Combustion
    Combustion, or burning, is a high-temperature exothermic redox chemical reaction between a fuel (the reductant) and an oxidant, usually atmospheric oxygen...
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  • Thumbnail for Internal combustion engine
    internal combustion engine (ICE or IC engine) is a heat engine in which the combustion of a fuel occurs with an oxidizer (usually air) in a combustion chamber...
    101 KB (13,146 words) - 21:42, 7 November 2024
  • Spontaneous human combustion (SHC) is the pseudoscientific concept of the spontaneous combustion of a living (or recently deceased) human body without...
    36 KB (4,164 words) - 14:34, 17 October 2024
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    Spontaneous combustion or spontaneous ignition is a type of combustion which occurs by self-heating (increase in temperature due to exothermic internal...
    15 KB (1,725 words) - 07:41, 6 November 2024
  • Internal Combustion may refer to: Internal combustion engine Internal Combustion (album), a 2010 album by Society Burning Internal Combustion, a 1994 album...
    509 bytes (85 words) - 18:53, 10 September 2023
  • the combustion of a specified amount of it. The calorific value is the total energy released as heat when a substance undergoes complete combustion with...
    26 KB (2,642 words) - 12:15, 14 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for External combustion engine
    external combustion engine (EC engine) is a reciprocating heat engine where a working fluid, contained internally, is heated by combustion in an external...
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  • Thumbnail for Diesel engine
    engine, named after the German engineer Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel is caused by the elevated temperature...
    153 KB (16,605 words) - 18:25, 14 November 2024
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    gaseous combustion products in the combustion chamber, causing them to expand and drive a piston, which turns a crankshaft. Unlike internal combustion engines...
    42 KB (5,103 words) - 17:27, 31 October 2024
  • spark-ignition internal combustion engines, knocking (also knock, detonation, spark knock, pinging or pinking) occurs when combustion of some of the air/fuel...
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  • A combustion engine is an engine which generates mechanical power by combustion of a fuel. Combustion engines are of two general types: Internal combustion...
    307 bytes (60 words) - 20:13, 10 December 2023
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    The staged combustion cycle (sometimes known as topping cycle, preburner cycle, or closed cycle) is a power cycle of a bipropellant rocket engine. In the...
    27 KB (2,671 words) - 18:36, 11 November 2024
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    A scramjet (supersonic combustion ramjet) is a variant of a ramjet airbreathing jet engine in which combustion takes place in supersonic airflow. As in...
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  • Thumbnail for Hydrogen internal combustion engine vehicle
    internal combustion engine vehicle (HICEV) is a type of hydrogen vehicle using an internal combustion engine. Hydrogen internal combustion engine vehicles...
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  • A combustion chamber is part of an internal combustion engine in which the fuel/air mix is burned. For steam engines, the term has also been used for an...
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  • Combustion analysis is a method used in both organic chemistry and analytical chemistry to determine the elemental composition (more precisely empirical...
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  • Look up spontaneous combustion in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Spontaneous combustion is the self-ignition of a mass, for example, a pile of oily...
    960 bytes (151 words) - 14:51, 22 September 2022
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    A pistonless rotary engine is an internal combustion engine that does not use pistons in the way a reciprocating engine does. Designs vary widely but typically...
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  • Combustion and Flame is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier on behalf of the Combustion Institute. It covers fundamental research...
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    A four-stroke (also four-cycle) engine is an internal combustion (IC) engine in which the piston completes four separate strokes while turning the crankshaft...
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