Combustible - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: combustibleInternal combustion
Designating or pertaining to any engine called an Internal combustion engine in which the heat or pressure energy necessary to produce motion is developed in the engine cylinder as by the explosion of a gas and not in a separate chamber as in a steam engine boiler The gas used may be a fixed gas or one derived from alcohol ether gasoline petrol naphtha oil petroleum etc There are three main classes 1 gas engines proper using fixed gases as coal blast furnace or producer gas 2 engines using the vapor of a volatile fluid as the typical gasoline petrol engine 3 oil engines using either an atomized spray or the vapor produced by heat of a comparatively heavy oil as petroleum or kerosene In all of these the gas is mixed with a definite amount of air the charge is composed in the cylinder and is then exploded either by a flame of gas flame ignition now little used by a hot tube tube ignition or the like by an electric spark electric ignition the usual method is gasoline engines or by the hea...
Combustibility
The quality of being combustible...
Combustibleness
Combustibility...
fire retardant
able to reduce combustibility or slow the spread of fire of substances that are added to combustible materials to make them less combustible...
firework
A device for producing a striking display of light or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire by the combustion of materials that burn in some peculiar manner as gunpowder sulphur metallic filings and various salts also called a pyrotechnic device The most common feature of fireworks is a paper or pasteboard tube filled with the combustible material A number of these tubes or cases are often combined so as to make when kindled a great variety of figures in fire often variously colored The skyrocket is a common form of firework The art of designing fireworks for purposes of entertainment is called pyrotechnics The name firework is also given to various combustible preparations used in war...
Otto cycle
A four stroke cycle for internal combustion engines consisting of the following operations First stroke suction into cylinder of explosive charge as of gas and air second stroke compression ignition and explosion of this charge third stroke the working stroke expansion of the gases fourth stroke expulsion of the products of combustion from the cylinder This is the cycle invented by Beau de Rochas in 1862 and applied by Dr Otto in 1877 in the Otto Crossley gas engine the first commercially successful internal combustion engine made...
Semi Diesel
Designating an internal combustion engine of a type resembling the Diesel engine in using as fuel heavy oil which is injected in a spray just before the end of the compression stroke and is fired without electrical ignition The fuel is sprayed into an iron box called a hot bulb or hot pot opening into the combustion chamber and heated for ignition by a blast lamp until the engine is running when it is ordinarily kept red hot by the heat of combustion...
blowby
the leakage of gases from the combustion cylinder of an internal combustion engine between the piston and cylinder wall into the crankcase...
bomb calorimeter
a type of calorimeter made of a steel body which closes tightly and resists high pressure designed for measuring the amount of heat developed durng chemical combustion of a quantity of combustible material in an oxygen atmosphere...
Calorimeter
An apparatus for measuring the amount of heat contained in bodies or developed by some mechanical or chemical process as friction chemical combination combustion etc For combustion processes a bomb calorimeter may be used...
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