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    Combustion, or burning, is a high-temperature exothermic redox chemical reaction between a fuel (the reductant) and an oxidant, usually atmospheric oxygen...
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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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  • Spontaneous human combustion (SHC) is the pseudoscientific concept of the spontaneous combustion of a living (or recently deceased) human body without...
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  • A combustion engine is an engine which generates mechanical power by combustion of a fuel. Combustion engines are of two general types: Internal combustion...
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  • the combustion of a specified amount of it. The calorific value is the total energy released as heat when a substance undergoes complete combustion with...
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  • Internal Combustion may refer to: Internal combustion engine Internal Combustion (album), a 2010 album by Society Burning Internal Combustion, a 1994 album...
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    gaseous combustion products in the combustion chamber, causing them to expand and drive a piston, which turns a crankshaft. Unlike internal combustion engines...
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  • spark-ignition internal combustion engines, knocking (also knock, detonation, spark knock, pinging or pinking) occurs when combustion of some of the air/fuel...
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    Spontaneous combustion or spontaneous ignition is a type of combustion which occurs by self-heating (increase in temperature due to exothermic internal...
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    The staged combustion cycle (sometimes known as topping cycle, preburner cycle, or closed cycle) is a power cycle of a bipropellant rocket engine. In the...
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