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• Choke valve
  ...re important for carbureted [[gasoline]] engines because small droplets of gasoline do not evaporate well within a cold engine. By restricting the flow of air ...mall prop-powered [[fixed-wing aircraft|airplane]]s, and carbureted marine engines.
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• Active Cylinder Control
  ...l concept''' to help boast the fuel efficacy of their flagship 12-cylinder engines. ...nt of gasoline because they are strictly designed for performance. Wasting gasoline is an expected trade-off should a person want a car to drive with as much p
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• Felix Wankel
  |25.02.1961 || Yanmar Diesel Co. Ltd || JP || gasoline and diesel engine, 1-100 PS, 1-300 PS |27.02.1961 || [[Mazda|Toyo Kogyo]], Co. Ltd.|| JP || gasoline 1-200 PS land vehicles
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• Petrol engine
  ...ith [[spark-ignition engine|spark-ignition]], designed to run on petrol ([[gasoline]]) and similar volatile fuels. ...air are usually pre-mixed before compression (although some modern petrol engines now use cylinder-direct petrol injection).
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• Pusher trailer
  '''Pusher trailers''' are gasoline or diesel fueled trailers with a traditional [[internal combustion engine]]
  865 bytes (123 words) - 08:20, 10 April 2007
• Crankcase
  == Two-stroke engines == ...nce.howstuffworks.com/two-stroke5.htm The Compression Stroke in Two-stroke Engines] at HowStuffWorks</ref>
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• Naturally-aspirated engine
  ...urbocharged]] nor [[supercharged]]. Most [[automobile]] gasoline (petrol) engines are naturally-aspirated, though turbochargers and superchargers have enjoye ...useful in very high performance cars, aircraft and helicopters. Many N/A engines today make use of [[Variable Length Intake Manifold]]s to harness Helmholtz
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• Bivalent (engine)
  ...are widely offered in the European passenger vehicle aftermarket. Bivalent engines can also use [[hydrogen vehicle|hydrogen]] as demonstrated by the recently ...tion]] system. As seen in BMW's Hydrogen 7, when the vehicle is running in gasoline mode the fuel is injected directly into the cylinders, and when the vehicle
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• Alusil
  ...AG>{{cite web|title=ALUSIL - Cylinder Blocks for the new Audi V6 and V8 SI engines|url=http://www.kspg-ag.com/pdfdoc/kspg_produktbroschueren/a_audi_zkg_e.pdf| ...1996 to eliminate the corrosion problems caused through the use of petrol/gasoline containing sulfur.
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• Mercedes-Benz DiesOtto engine
  |Type = Gasoline ...o [[Nicolaus Otto]], both being German (even though the paternity of the [[gasoline engine]] is still disputed between Nicolaus Otto and [[Alphonse Beau de Roc
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• Glowplug
  ...w-plug''') is a heating device used to aid starting [[diesel engine|diesel engines]]. [[diesel engine|Diesel engines]], unlike [[petrol engine|petrol engines]], do not use [[spark plug|spark plugs]] to induce [[combustion]]. Instead,
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• Fuel pump
  ...c fuel pumps that are mounted inside the fuel tank (and some fuel injected engines have two fuel pumps: one low pressure/high volume supply pump in the tank ...f [[fuel injection|electronic fuel injection]], most carbureted automobile engines used mechanical fuel pumps to transfer fuel from the fuel tank into the fue
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• Exhaust gas
  ...tted as a result of the [[combustion]] of fuels such as [[natural gas]], [[gasoline]]/petrol, [[diesel fuel]], fuel oil or coal. It is discharged into the atmo ===Spark-ignition engines===
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• Dodge Durango Hybrid
  ...ultiple vehicles and adapted to [[Gasoline|gasoline]] or [[Diesel|diesel]] engines, the [[Global Hybrid Cooperation|two-mode full hybrid]] can be applied glob
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• Diesel engine
  ...a separate source of ignition, such as a spark plug, as is the case in the gasoline engine. ===How diesel engines work===
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• Throttle
  == Internal combustion engines == In a [[petrol]] (gasoline) [[internal combustion engine]], the throttle is a valve that directly regu
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• François Isaac de Rivaz
  ...the mid-nineteenth century. Gasoline was not used for internal combustion engines until 1870.
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• Robert Bosch GmbH
  ...d about 63% of the revenue in 2004. This business sector comprises of: ''[[Gasoline]] Systems'' and ''[[Diesel]] Systems'' with the core products injection and ...emand for modern diesel systems had a positive effect. The share of diesel engines in newly registered cars in western Europe rose to 48% in 2004. Bosch has p
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• Magneto (electrical)
  ...those in [[two-stroke cycle|2-stroke]] and [[four-stroke cycle|4-stroke]] engines used in small [[motorcycles]], lawnmowers and chainsaws, serving a similar
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• Compression ratio
  ...est capacity. It is a fundamental specification for many common combustion engines. ...d combustion chamber when the [[piston]] is at the bottom of its [[stroke (engines)|stroke]], and the volume of the combustion chamber when the piston is at t
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