value) of a substance, usually a fuel or food (see food energy), is the amount of heat released during the combustion of a specified amount of it. The...
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whose combustion then supplies the heat required to produce more of them. Combustion is often hot enough that incandescent light in the form of either...
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external combustion engine (EC engine) is a reciprocating heat engine where a working fluid, contained internally, is heated by combustion in an external...
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Engine (redirect from Classification of Engines)
mechanical heat engine, in which heat from the combustion of a fuel causes rapid pressurisation of the gaseous combustion products in the combustion chamber...
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Calorimeter (category Pages that use a deprecated format of the chem tags)
vessel wall. A bomb calorimeter is a type of constant-volume calorimeter used in measuring the heat of combustion of a particular reaction. Bomb calorimeters...
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insulators that prevent the escape of heat causing the temperatures of the material to rise above its ignition point. Combustion will begin when a sufficient...
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internal combustion engine (ICE or IC engine) is a heat engine in which the combustion of a fuel occurs with an oxidizer (usually air) in a combustion chamber...
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enthalpy of reaction, if initial and final temperatures are equal). A related term is the heat of combustion, which is the energy mostly of the weak double...
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Heat content may refer to: Enthalpy, measure of energy in a thermodynamic system Heat of combustion, amount of heat released by combustion of a quantity...
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Energy density (redirect from Energy of explosives)
of heat or for use in a heat engine, the relevant quantity is the change in standard enthalpy or the heat of combustion. There are two kinds of heat of...
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