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• Cetane index
  * Internal Combustion Engine Fundamentals, John B. Heywood, McGraw Hill, 1988 ISBN 0-07-100499-8
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• Compression ratio
  ...it's smallest capacity. It is a fundamental specification for many common combustion engines. ...is at the bottom of its [[stroke (engines)|stroke]], and the volume of the combustion chamber when the piston is at the top of its stroke.
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• Crankcase
  In an [[internal combustion engine]], the '''crankcase''' is the housing for the [[crankshaft]]. The e Early internal combustion engines were of the "open crank" style, that is, there was no enclosed cran
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• Hybrid electric vehicle
  ...le]], also called '''Hybrid-electric vehicle (HEV)''' which use [[internal combustion]] engines and electric batteries to power electric motors. See also [[Hybri ...a hybrid, as power is delivered both via an [[internal combustion|internal combustion engine]] or electric motor and the rider's muscles.
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• BMW S85 engine
  *Cast aluminum heads with four valves per cylinder and CNC machined ports and combustion chambers. Valves are actuated though non-rotating inverted bucked cam follo ...t system, engine misfires as well as knock can be measured simultaneously. Combustion quality raises or lowers cylinder pressure. The ionic current is measured b
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• W engine
  ...pecific type of [[reciprocating engine|reciprocating / piston]] [[internal combustion engine]] [[engine configuration|configuration]]. The [[cylinder bank]]s re ...e (rpm). It utilises four valves per cylinder, 64 [[poppet valve#Internal combustion engine|valves]] total, with four [[overhead camshaft]]s arranged in a 2x [[
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• Connecting rod
  ==Internal combustion engines== In modern [[automobile|automotive]] [[internal combustion engine]]s, the connecting rods are most usually made of steel for productio
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• BMW 745h
  The first car offered for sale with an internal combustion hydrogen engine.
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• Diesel
  ...biodiesel has combustion properties very similar to petrodiesel, including combustion energy and cetane ratings. Paraffin biodiesel also exists. Due to the purit ===Internal Combustion Engines===
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• Automobile emissions control
  ...le air pollution; the products of burning fuel in the vehicle's [[internal combustion engine|engine]], emitted from the vehicle's exhaust system. The major poll ##''Carbon monoxide (CO)'': a product of incomplete combustion, carbon monoxide reduces the blood's ability to carry oxygen and are danger
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• HEMI
  ...he performance of their cars. The first hemispherical shaped (half sphere) combustion chamber engine was developed prior to World War II, but it was used very li ...to the public. This engine had 331 cubic inches and featured hemispherical combustion chambers. This engine produced 180 horsepower at 4000 rpm. The first cars t
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• Wet sump
  ...management design for [[four-stroke cycle|four-stroke]] piston [[internal combustion engines]] which uses a built-in reservoir for oil, as opposed to an externa
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• Longitudinal engine
  In [[automotive engineering]], a '''longitudinal engine''' is an [[internal combustion engine]] in which the [[crankshaft]] is oriented along the long axis of the
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• Centrifugal clutch
  * keep the [[internal combustion engine]] from stalling when the blade is stopped abruptly
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• Cold air intake
  ...for the purpose of increasing the <nowiki>power</nowiki> of the [[internal-combustion engine]]. A secondary goal is to increase the appeal of a car by changing ...te on the principal of increasing the amount of [[oxygen]] available for [[combustion]] with [[fuel]]. Because cooler air has more density for a given volume, co
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• RKM engine
  ...configuration of every model depends upon its use. For instance, internal combustion engines would include injection valves and after-burning chambers. These, h *Internal and external combustion engines, including Diesel, for all types of wheeled or tracked motor vehicl
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• Knight Engine
  The '''Knight Engine''' was an internal combustion engine, designed by Charles Yale Knight (1868-1940), that used [[sleeve val
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• Tax horsepower
  ...ieth century tax power was reasonably close to real power; as the internal combustion engine developed, real power became larger than nominal taxable power by a ...ngthy combustion chamber in any case reduced their potential for improving combustion efficiency.
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• Samuel Morey
  ...762 - April 17, 1843) was an American inventor, who invented an [[internal combustion engine]] and was a pioneer in steamships who accumulated a total of 20 pate ==Experiments with vapors and combustion==
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• Alternative Fuel Vehicles
  ...Almost any gasoline engine can be adapted to use hydrogen fuel. Internal combustion engines provide various benefits compared with fuel cells, such as more pow * Internal combustion hydrogen engines show remarkable potential
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