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Combustion in sentence

103 examples of Combustion in a sentence

The internal combustion engine is not sustainable.
I can show you combustion.
If you put that same fuel in an internal combustion engine car, you get about 20 percent efficiency.
What about the internal combustion engine, which was invented in 1879?
And also, they are cleaner, cheaper and quieter than internal combustion engines.
From playing with it, they learn some basic principles about fire, about intake, combustion, exhaust.
And we do teach our kids how the human body works, we teach them how the combustion engine functions and we even tell them that if you want to really be an astronaut you can become one.
One electric car doesn't amount to much in a fleet of 1.2 billion combustion engine vehicles.
If you were the first person on your block to get a car with an internal combustion engine, your neighbors would probably think you were crazy: "Why would you want this large, clunky machine that breaks down all the time, that lights on fire, and is still slower than a horse?"
Instead, it’s our sensory experience of a chemical reaction called combustion.
As the fire heats up, the carbon dioxide and water vapor created by combustion expand.
We can see all of this because combustion also generates light.
So a single road lane tunnel according to regulations has to be 26 feet, maybe 28 feet in diameter to allow for crashes and emergency vehicles and sufficient ventilation for combustion engine cars.
So what will be really fun about this is you have a flat torque RPM curve with an electric motor, whereas with a diesel motor or any kind of internal combustion engine car, you've got a torque RPM curve that looks like a hill.
We all know how a combustion engine sounds like, and we do actually also know how an electric engine sounds like.
Altogether, Fahrenheit 451 is a portrait of independent thought on the brink of extinction - and a parable about a society which is complicit in its own combustion.
The fuel cell looked great: one-tenth as many moving parts, a fuel-cell propulsion system as an internal combustion engine, and it emits just water.
We're talking about obsoleting the internal combustion engine, and doing it in terms of affordability at scale volumes, its performance and its durability.
But after the Stirling engine, Otto came along, and also, he didn't invent the internal combustion engine, he just refined it.
There have been hundreds of millions of internal combustion engines built, compared to thousands of Stirling engines built.
The internal combustion engine took off because weight mattered, because you were moving around.
And so, it's like a different lens, allowing us to see the answers to questions like, "What about combustion?" "What about fluid dynamics?"
Atmospheric explosions, or full combustion, takes about 15,000 times longer than what happens in your car.
It's not good stuff, and it's from inefficient combustion, not from combustion itself.
The Rohauer blurb at the start warns that the Three Ages single nitrate print was rediscovered and salvaged in 1954 just in time before combustion, and many frames that seemed hopelessly glued together were separated.
The next question I found myself asking is this, "How long would certain things (books, computer-dependent machinery, combustion engines) last and still be of any use to anyone?"
The nations of WANA missed the first industrial revolution based on coal and the steam engine, and then the second industrial revolution based on oil and the internal combustion engine.
New ICT technologies, the “techno-pessimists” claim, simply do not bring the kind of economy-wide benefits that were brought by, say, the internal combustion engine and electrification.
Just the health consequences of coal production and combustion are staggering.
In the European Union, coal combustion is responsible for 18,200 premature deaths and 8,500 new cases of chronic bronchitis per year.
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