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combustion

[kuhm-buhs-chuhn] / kəmˈbʌs tʃən /


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She said the Shark has “more power and torque than the legacy ICE rivals,” referring to the internal combustion engine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Rapid nanoparticle growth enabled survival to sizes that efficiently deposit throughout the human respiratory system, yielding inhalation dose rates comparable to or exceeding those from primary combustion sources such as traffic emissions.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

That sounds strangely plausible in the case of the Amalfi, whose twin-turbocharged 3.9-liter V8 explores the radical edge of combustion, reaching 631 hp at 7,500 rpm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

The reduction in race distance has been introduced because the ratio of internal combustion to electrical power is changing from 53-47 this year to 58-42 next year, before becoming 60-40 in 2028.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

“All right! All right, come along. Know the principles of a internal combustion engine?”

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

Insulation adds to the price tag, so the unit itself often acts as an amplifier for the whirring machinery and tiny combustions happening inside.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2022

The 2019 exhibition calendar was unusually crammed with heavily hyped shows, not to mention floating suspense and sudden combustions of fear and loathing.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2019

New York signs a pair of lesser talents like, say, Jimmy Butler and Kemba Walker, clawing its way toward a semi-interesting mediocrity before lapsing into another of its periodic combustions.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 5, 2019

“The exit in a blaze of glory”, he says of other rockers’ early combustions, “is bullshit.”

From Economist ● Sep. 27, 2016

Table 1 gives the percentages of the gaseous products of combustions from equal weights of black powder and two of the permissible explosives.

From Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Federal Investigations of Mine Accidents, Structural Materials and Fuels. Paper No. 1171 by Herbert M. Wilson


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