Definition & Meaning | English word COMBUSTING

Definitions of COMBUSTING

1. inflection of combust

Examples of Using COMBUSTING in a Sentence

• Grinding or pulverizing coal to a dust form before combusting it improves the speed and efficiency of burning, which makes the coal easier to handle.
• Through the principles of short recoil or simple blowback operations, the slide is moved backwards with each shot by the energy of expanding gasses caused by the combusting propellant (often a nitrocellulose-based smokeless powder, very rarely black powder).
• If the ignition spark occurs at a position that is too advanced relative to piston position, the rapidly combusting mixture can actually push against the piston still moving up in its compression stroke, causing knocking (pinking or pinging) and possible engine damage, this usually occurs at low RPM and is known as pre-ignition or in severe cases detonation.
• The ECAPS thruster technology produces thrust by thermally and catalytically decomposing, igniting, combusting, and exhausting monopropellant LMP-103S fed into the thruster's reactor.
• His Negator ability, "Unburn", allows him to prevent objects and people from burning or combusting but not heat.

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