How to Use combustion chamber in a Sentence

combustion chamber

noun
  • And there were two spark plugs per cylinder, mounted in the sides of the combustion chamber rather than using a single one in the center.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 16 Oct. 2023
  • This is mixed with jet fuel and burned in the combustion chamber, which creates a jet, propelling the aircraft forward.
    The Economist, 24 Feb. 2021
  • One tactic is to increase a gas turbine engine’s bypass ratio so that more air flows around the combustion chamber instead of through it.
    Jennifer Walter, Discover Magazine, 15 Oct. 2022
  • This century-old technology is located in the combustion chamber and mounted near the top of the engine in the cylinder head.
    Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 9 Sep. 2020
  • These smokers are super efficient and rely upon a feeder to feed the pellets from a hopper to the combustion chamber.
    John Sass, Field & Stream, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 this morning was aborted at literally the last second -- the sensors detected too high a pressure in a combustion chamber in one of the engines.
    Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2012
  • The ratio of ammonia versus oxygen in the combustion chamber has to be very accurate.
    Costas Paris, WSJ, 27 May 2021
  • And while nitrogen can contribute to an engine’s thrust—since it’s being heated in the combustion chamber and expelled through the nozzle—the exhaust speed must be greater than the spacecraft’s speed.
    Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 26 June 2020
  • The anomaly occurred in the rocket's second-stage, the Zefiro 40, and an immediate analysis pointed to a drop in pressure in the combustion chamber of the segment.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 6 Jan. 2023
  • According to Kook and his team, the concentration of a gas—hydrogen, in this case—can be made to vary within different sections of the combustion chamber.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Ars Technica, 7 Dec. 2022
  • However, an anomaly in the second stage led to an immediate drop in pressure in the combustion chamber, BBC reports.
    Joe Wituschek, BGR, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Then it’s routed to a rocket combustion chamber where it is mixed with liquid hydrogen fuel and ignited to produce thrust.
    Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 26 June 2020
  • This design allowed for bigger valves, allowing much more air into the combustion chamber.
    Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2022
  • In a small, secondary combustion chamber with a separate intake valve, a rich mixture lights off to burn a much leaner mixture in the primary combustion chamber.
    Michael Jordan, Car and Driver, 9 July 2020
  • The researchers say that directly mixing hydrogen with diesel in the combustion chamber would increase NOx pollution.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Ars Technica, 7 Dec. 2022
  • On board any rocket (a chemical rocket, that is) is a fuel tank, an oxidizer tank, and something to spark an explosive reaction in the combustion chamber.
    Amy Shira Teitel, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2018
  • The investigation determined there was a breach in a high-pressure line carrying cryogenic liquid oxygen to the first-stage combustion chamber.
    orlandosentinel.com, 5 Aug. 2020
  • In contrast, liquid-fuel missiles use fuel and oxidizer pumped into a combustion chamber, which combust when mixed and burned.
    Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Typically a spacecraft moves by igniting its fuel in a combustion chamber and expelling hot gases.
    Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 3 Sep. 2020
  • The feeder regulates the amount of wood pellets being fed into the combustion chamber, providing excellent control of the temperature.
    John Sass, Field & Stream, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The company later said an investigation determined there was a breach in a high-pressure line carrying cryogenic liquid oxygen to the first-stage combustion chamber.
    John Antczak, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Jan. 2021
  • Creating central air conditioning for the main combustion chamber—a pressure cooker suitable for Dante’s sixth level of hell—required some novel thinking.
    Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 4 July 2021
  • The result is a complex, attention-absorbing presentation of many interlinked parts, with a combustion chamber at its center.
    Holland Cotter, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Under the hood, most modern engines feature direct injection, where fuel is squirted directly into the combustion chamber.
    Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 31 May 2023
  • Just as an example, a rocket nozzle often has a complicated network of coolant pipes surrounding it, with cryogenic propellants pumped through to keep the nozzle from overheating when the fuel is pumped into the combustion chamber and ignited.
    Ned Potter, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Nuclear thermal propulsion involves a rocket engine in which a nuclear reactor replaces the combustion chamber and burns liquid hydrogen as a fuel.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Burning liquid hydrogen in today’s engines is still expected to require slight modifications, such as a shorter combustion chamber and better seals.
    IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2023

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