piston
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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.
The technology uses the bobbing floaters to compress pistons, which push hydraulic fluid into storage tanks located nearby on land.
From Los Angeles Times
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