combustion

Gas-powered internal combustion engines were pretty much the only way to move a car from one place to another.

In attempting to compete against the internal combustion engine, Tesla may have to do something similar.

Boeing claims to have eliminated the risk of combustion, but not ignition.

If combustion occurs within a battery, says Boeing, it would be snuffed out in a microsecond for lack of oxygen.

It was “vaporized electrolyte which looks like smoke but is not the result of combustion.”

Aconite … night boat … sea sick … emetics … exhaustion … stimulants … hard drinking … spontaneous combustion … animal charcoal.

Spontaneous combustion is the burning of a substance or body by the internal development of heat without the application of fire.

It should be steady, and it should not give out great heat nor injurious products of combustion.

If he doesn't attend to it we shall have a case of spontaneous combustion to record; and we want to avoid that if possible.

The error was, non-observation of an important portion of the actual residue, namely, the gaseous products of combustion.