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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
- 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
- The authors then subjected the iron-rich microspherical residue of the red-gray chips to X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy (XEDS) to compare it with the profile of microspherical residue from known thermite combustions and found them to be virtually identical. Pardon Our Dust, or, Why the World Trade Center Dust Matters
