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Combustion
"Combustion" in a Sentence (14 examples)
Oxygen is needed for combustion.
Pollutants like this derive mainly from the combustion of fuel in car engines.
Carbon monoxide is a poisonous substance formed by the incomplete combustion of carbon compounds.
Oxygen is necessary for combustion.
Combustion liberates heat.
In a rocket engine, fuel and a source of oxygen, called an oxidizer, are mixed and exploded in a combustion chamber. The combustion produces hot exhaust which is passed through a nozzle to accelerate the flow and produce thrust.
In a liquid rocket, the propellants, the fuel and the oxidizer, are stored separately as liquids and are pumped into the combustion chamber of the nozzle where burning occurs.
For the forty years following the first flight of the Wright brothers, airplanes used internal combustion engines to turn propellers to generate thrust.
Internal combustion engines burn a mixture of fuel and air.
Is spontaneous human combustion scientifically proven?
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From this ground, with a kind of loose scorn, he continues the French Correspondence, and secretly contriveth a continuance of the Scotish Rebellion. He omits no Act of Contempt against the antient Nobility, that they might in the sence of their disgrace be, or at least dayly threaten some new Combustion.
There [were] great combustions and divisions among the heads of the university.
Him the Almighty Power / Hurld headlong flaming from th' Etherial Skie / With hideous Ruine and combustion down / To bottomless perdition, there to dwell / In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire, / Who durst defie th' Omnipotent to Arms.
But say from whence this new combustion springs.
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