Sentence examples for cylinder ignites from inspiring English sources

(Knock, which can cause engine damage, occurs when the fuel in a cylinder ignites before the piston has reached the top of its cycle).

(Knock, which can cause engine damage, occurs when the fuel in a cylinder ignites before the piston has reached the top of its cycle). In 1921, a team of G.M. researchers looking for a way to prevent knock discovered that by adding small amounts of tetraethyl lead, or TEL, to the fuel supply they could solve the problem.

Today "diesel" is universally used to describe any reciprocating engine in which the heat induced by compressing air in the cylinders ignites a finely atomized spray of fuel.

The main force is supplied by combustion pressure after fuel is delivered to a cylinder and ignited by the spark plug.

Two or three times will usually suffice to draw the mixture into cylinders and ignite it".

you do not want to have your engine start while a wire is disconnected because fuel will still be added to the cylinder and not ignited.

This voltage has to move from the coil, into and through the distributor and out through the spark plug wire and through the spark until it ignites inside the cylinder.

"When you hear that pow and see the flash of light, you feel your blood race," Yao Zhigang, 47, a technology company worker, said moments before igniting a bluish cylinder that looked and sounded like a stick of dynamite.

The devices were intended to ignite the petrol, gas cylinder and nail devices, but a lack of oxygen prevented them from going off.

At that time it was believed that a fission weapon could be used to ignite one end of a cylinder of liquid deuterium and that the resulting thermonuclear reaction would self-propagate to the other end.

Diesel fuel will self-ignite when pressurized in the cylinder, whereas gasoline needs a spark from a spark plug to combust.