Discs, wide-open to the air, were easy to cool, whereas drums weren't because they trapped the red-hot friction of hard, racetrack braking inside big steel dishpans.
I reached out and touched the edge: it was scalding hot, from friction.
The tire, hot from friction, exploded, sending chunks of rubber as heavy as eight pounds flying upward with such force that they punctured the huge triangular left wing.
But the board was also concerned that a wheel rim or other damaged part, hot from friction with the runway, would not come near leaking, flammable fluids close to where the wheels are stowed.
That material first settles into a sort of gravitational vortex called an accretion disk, and before vanishing forever into the black hole the accreting material becomes so hot from friction that it emits x-rays.
Secretary Byrnes had made it clear that the United States, having agreed-contrary to its original position-to the internationalization of this area, was determined that the proposed Free Territory should be genuinely international in character and not a hotbed of friction and dispute between Italy and Yugoslavia.
Same principle, of course, but greater smoothness and ease and a new hot-point friction-plus performance - the kind of firemaking to make an Indian turn green.
I watched them scoot along before I, too, grabbed onto the rope, which, despite temperatures in the teens, felt hot from the friction.
The occurrence and incendivity of mechanically generated sparks and hot surfaces in friction contacts are presented when using aluminium bronze.
He may have envisioned using the Fox Hot Spot, the friction of bodies crashing as Carpenter's bunt fluttered down the third-base line, Napoli slamming into David Freese (who is invisible to Hot Spot) turning everything fiery yellow, the World Series defined by a rally-killing double play.
