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• Naturally-aspirated engine
  ...ngine''' (or "N/A" - aspiration meaning breathing) refers to an [[internal combustion engine]] (normally [[petrol]] or [[diesel]] powered) that is neither [[turb ...er]], for high-performance N/A engines that benefit from higher [[internal combustion engines|compression]].
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• Reciprocating engine
  ...cribes the common features of all types. The main types are the [[internal combustion engine]] used extensively in motor vehicles, the [[steam engine]] which was ...r either by [[ignition system|ignition]] of a fuel air mixture ([[internal combustion engine]]) or by contact with a hot heat exchanger in the cylinder (stirling
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• Cetane number
  '''Cetane number''' or CN is a measurement of the [[combustion]] quality of [[diesel fuel]] during compression ignition. It is a significa ...gnition delay; the time period between the start of injection and start of combustion (ignition) of the fuel. In a particular diesel engine, higher cetane fuels
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• Cone clutch
  ...speed applications although they were once common in automobiles and other combustion engine transmissions. They are usually now confined to very specialist tran
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• Crankshaft deep rolling
  ...lling''' is a method of cold work deformation and burnishing of [[internal combustion engine]] [[crankshaft]] journal fillets to increase durability and design s
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• Blue Flame
  ...nd is brought to combustion temperature. The gas is then injected into the combustion chamber with the oxygen provided by the hydrogen peroxide. A stable flame
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• Front-engine design
  ...-mounted engine''' describes the placement of an [[automobile]] [[internal-combustion engine|engine]] in front of the vehicle passenger compartment.
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• Bivalent (engine)
  ...n Energy Strategy</ref> The engine itself is similar to a regular gasoline combustion engine with an exception to the [[fuel injection]] system. As seen in BMW's ...t complicated refinement processes. Since little carbon is produced in the combustion of natural gas, the vehicles engine and oil are kept much cleaner than if j
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• Atkinson cycle
  The '''Atkinson-cycle engine''' is a type of [[internal combustion engine]] invented by James Atkinson in 1882. The Atkinson cycle is designed ...ure; when this occurs, all the available energy has been obtained from the combustion process. For any given portion of air, the greater expansion ratio allows m
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• Dipstick
  This is a common way to measure the amount of oil in the sump of an internal combustion engine. The dipstick is a metal strip or thin flexible coil inserted into
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• De Dion-Bouton
  ==Internal Combustion Engine cars== ...experiments, de Dion became convinced that the future lay in the internal combustion engine. Trépardoux was not to be convinced and left the company in 1894 wh
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• V engine
  ...ne''' is a common [[engine configuration|configuration]] for an [[internal combustion engine]]. The [[cylinder (engine)|cylinders]] and [[piston]]s are aligned, In 1896, [[Karl Benz]] patented his design for the first internal combustion engine with horizontally opposed pistons. Usually, each pair of correspond
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• Diesel engine
  The '''diesel engine''' is a type of [[internal combustion engine]]; more specifically, it is a compression ignition engine, in which ...ir. The resulting mixture ignites and burns very rapidly. This contained combustion causes the gas in the chamber to heat up rapidly, which increases its press
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• Air-cooled engine
  Most modern [[internal combustion engine]]s are cooled by a closed circuit carrying liquid [[antifreeze (cool In all combustion engines, a great percentage of the heat generated (around 44%) escapes thro
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• Étienne Lenoir
  ...bile (car)|Hippomobile]] with a hydrogen gas fuelled one cylinder internal combustion engine made a test drive from Paris to Joinville-le-Pont: top speed about 9 ...neers, especially [[Nikolaus Otto]], began making improvements in internal combustion technology which soon rendered the Lenoir design obsolete. Less than 500 Le
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• Cylinder
  ==Internal combustion engines== :''Main article: [[Internal combustion engine]]''
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• Poppet valve
  ==Internal combustion engine== ...e so called '''L-head''' engine because of the shape of the cylinder and [[combustion chamber]], also called '[[flathead engine]]' as the top of the [[cylinder h
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• MF layout
  ...e]]''' layout is one in which the front wheels are driven by an [[internal-combustion engine|engine]] placed just behind them, in front of the passenger compartm
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• Venturi Fetish
  The car's acceleration is comparable to a normal internal combustion engined sports car, producing approximately 250&nbsp;horsepower (180 kW) at ...lable at all speeds, as opposed to the progressive delivery of an internal combustion engined car, where full power is only available within certain RPM ranges.
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• Locomobile
  ...ually sold. Locomobile started experimenting with [[gasoline]] [[internal combustion engine]]s in 1902, and stopped making steam vehicles the following year. ...mobiles are also referred to as ''locomobiles.'' In this world, [[internal combustion]] was never discovered and automobiles are always powered by steam.
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