combustion
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She said the Shark has “more power and torque than the legacy ICE rivals,” referring to the internal combustion engine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
A pathologist gave the cause of the couple's deaths as exposure to combustion products of fire.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
With global demand for electric vehicles slowing, Leiters said Porsche would continue to invest in internal combustion engines and plug-in hybrids.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
Rapid nanoparticle growth enabled survival to sizes that efficiently deposit throughout the human respiratory system, yielding inhalation dose rates comparable to or exceeding those from primary combustion sources such as traffic emissions.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
Such is the nature of combustion in pure oxygen.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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Insulation adds to the price tag, so the unit itself often acts as an amplifier for the whirring machinery and tiny combustions happening inside.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2022
The 2019 exhibition calendar was unusually crammed with heavily hyped shows, not to mention floating suspense and sudden combustions of fear and loathing.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2019
New York signs a pair of lesser talents like, say, Jimmy Butler and Kemba Walker, clawing its way toward a semi-interesting mediocrity before lapsing into another of its periodic combustions.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 5, 2019
“The exit in a blaze of glory”, he says of other rockers’ early combustions, “is bullshit.”
From Economist ● Sep. 27, 2016
But it does not affect merely the combustion of hydrogen, or carbon, or the candle; but it exalts all combustions of the common kind.
From The Chemical History of a Candle by Sir William Crookes
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