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    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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    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...
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  • Spontaneous human combustion (SHC) is the pseudoscientific concept of the spontaneous combustion of a living (or recently deceased) human body without...
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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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    Spontaneous combustion or spontaneous ignition is a type of combustion which occurs by self-heating (increase in temperature due to exothermic internal...
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    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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    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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    gaseous combustion products in the combustion chamber, causing them to expand and drive a piston, which turns a crankshaft. Unlike internal combustion engines...
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  • 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...
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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...
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  • Internal Combustion may refer to: Internal combustion engine Internal Combustion (album), a 2010 album by Society Burning Internal Combustion, a 1994 album...
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    The diesel engine, named after Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel is caused by the elevated temperature of the...
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  • 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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  • Combustion was a computer program for motion graphics, compositing, and visual effects developed by Discreet Logic, a division on Autodesk, and originally...
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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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    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...
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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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  • 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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  • internal combustion engine or external combustion engine Spontaneous human combustion Combustion (album), 2005 album by Decoded Feedback Combustion (film)...
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    the exhaust gas of combustion at power plants. Technology is available to remove pollutants from flue gas at power plants. Combustion of fossil fuels is...
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    Coal combustion products (CCPs), also called coal combustion wastes (CCWs) or coal combustion residuals (CCRs), are categorized in four groups, each based...
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    spelled carburettor or carburetter) is a device used by a gasoline internal combustion engine to control and mix air and fuel entering the engine. The primary...
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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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  • Micro-combustion is the sequence of exothermic chemical reaction between a fuel and an oxidant accompanied by the production of heat and conversion of...
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  • Combustion (Spanish: Combustión) is a 2013 Spanish action film directed by Daniel Calparsoro which stars Álex González, Adriana Ugarte, and Alberto Ammann...
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  • Combustion Engineering (C-E) was a multi-national American-based engineering firm that developed nuclear steam supply power systems in the United States...
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  • Thumbnail for Hemispherical combustion chamber
    A hemispherical combustion chamber is a type of combustion chamber in a reciprocating internal combustion engine with a domed cylinder head notionally...
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    is the ratio between the volume of the cylinder and combustion chamber in an internal combustion engine at their maximum and minimum values. A fundamental...
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  • Heterogeneous combustion, otherwise known as combustion in porous media, is a type of combustion in which a solid and gas phase interact to promote the...
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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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