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The process begins when air and fuel are drawn into the combustion chamber.
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Vikram Mittal, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
Chemical Smell Chemical scents can be produced when the heat exchanger is not properly cycling heat from the combustion chamber into the plenum.
—Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Jan. 2025
If nitromethane goes into the combustion chamber and doesn’t ignite, liquid fuel has no place to go, and the engine will explode, ejecting shrapnel and engulfing a car and its driver in flames.
—Rachel Kushner, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
In 1958, the scramjet, or supersonic combustion ramjet, was conceptualized – which would ignite fuel in a combustion chamber while air flowed through continuously at supersonic speeds, eliminating the ramjet's draggy need to slow that airflow down below the speed of sound.
—New Atlas, 4 Dec. 2024
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Vikram Mittal, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
Chemical Smell Chemical scents can be produced when the heat exchanger is not properly cycling heat from the combustion chamber into the plenum.
—Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Jan. 2025
If nitromethane goes into the combustion chamber and doesn’t ignite, liquid fuel has no place to go, and the engine will explode, ejecting shrapnel and engulfing a car and its driver in flames.
—Rachel Kushner, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
In 1958, the scramjet, or supersonic combustion ramjet, was conceptualized – which would ignite fuel in a combustion chamber while air flowed through continuously at supersonic speeds, eliminating the ramjet's draggy need to slow that airflow down below the speed of sound.
—New Atlas, 4 Dec. 2024
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“Combustion chamber.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/combustion%20chamber. Accessed 7 Feb. 2025.
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