piston
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The higher forces, in turn, would require thicker piston crowns, shortened connecting rods and thicker wrist pins.
It was also blended into gasoline to improve engine performance by preventing pistons from "knocking."
From Science Daily
At least Honda is acknowledging the emotional vacancy left from the absence of pistons, flame and fuel, and making an effort to fill it.
The piston faces have small, crescent-shaped reliefs into which the valves extend near the top dead center.
Many municipalities across the country have banned two-stroke leaf blowers—so named because a piston in a leaf blower engine makes two movements instead of four, as in a car.
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