combustion
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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
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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
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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