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combustion

[kuhm-buhs-chuhn] / kəmˈbʌs tʃən /


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The reduction in race distance has been introduced because the ratio of internal combustion to electrical power is changing from 53-47 this year to 58-42 next year, before becoming 60-40 in 2028.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

Calls have grown for these levies to be extended to hybrid vehicles, which combine electric motors and internal combustion engines.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

Under identical conditions, that catalyst did not effectively carry out POM and instead showed only methane combustion activity.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026

JLR's Electric Propulsion Manufacturing Centre in Wolverhampton is now producing battery packs and electric drive units alongside internal combustion engines.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

This myth about spontaneous combustion would be accepted as scientific fact far longer than might be imagined.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

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

Finding that very many of the products of these combustions had the properties of acids, he gave to the new "air" the name oxygen, which means the acid-producer.

From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by M. M. Pattison Muir




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