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US
/kəmˈbəstʃən/
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[ UK /kəmbˈʌstʃən/ ]
[ UK /kəmbˈʌstʃən/ ]
NOUN
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the act of burning something
the burning of leaves was prohibited by a town ordinance -
a state of violent disturbance and excitement
combustion grew until revolt was unavoidable - a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light
How To Use combustion In A Sentence
- The engine on the X-51, called a supersonic-combustion ramjet, or "scramjet," pulls off a couple of especially tricky tasks. When Supersonic Is Just Too Slow
- For example, when speaking of burning human poop he says “On a wet basis, it can have less than 1000 Btu/lb, which is too little to sustain its own combustion.” Blast from the Past: Flaming Babies! « Whatever
- combustion products are exhausted in the engine
- The war-time hangars were not suited for comfort, and it was not until 1956 that combustion heating was provided in the classroom.
- Anyone who can overhaul an internal combustion engine can hold his own in the intelligence department. Christianity Today
- Some of the more exotic, smoked flavors, including hickory and applewood, are express-smoked under pressure in a controlled-combustion smoke chamber.
- Dioxins, and furans, are chemical compounds generated as by-products of most forms of combustion, particularly of plastics and rubber.
- Combustion, or burning, is a chemical process involving carbon, hydrogen and oxygen.
- The combustion flow field played important role in the NOx emission.
- I mean, wouldn't it be dumb for a researcher to spend valuable time and funding seeking phlogiston when his governing theoretic needs no such 'stuff' to explain combustion and he doesn't believe it exists? Behe's Test
