Sentence examples for jets of burning from inspiring English sources

Drummond's light, which consisted of a block of calcium oxide heated to incandescence in jets of burning oxygen and hydrogen, provided a soft, very brilliant light that could be directed and focused.

A jet of burning gas shot into the 28-metre-deep flame trench and the rocket forged upwards, a bright spark of light rising through the drizzle that enveloped the space centre just as the final countdown began.

They produced "jets of molten, burning plutonium extending hundreds of feet into the air".

Ultimately, something more akin to a usual jet engine may be more efficient, using the laser energy instead of burning jet fuel to heat air as it rushes through.

And the smell of burning jet fuel, even just the faintest wisp, would send my body into full-fledged panic.

"There were thousands of gallons of burning jet fuel and an immense, dense particulate matter cloud that enveloped these workers for days".

Engineers studying the collapse of the World Trade Center's twin towers attribute the buildings' destruction to heat generated by tons of burning jet fuel, not just the jetliners' impact.

But the experts found that a much wider and more rapid dispersal of burning jet fuel in the north tower may explain why dozens of people on floors below the plane impact died in that building.

The general outline of the towers' collapse was well known soon after the terrorist attack: engineers believe that the crash of the 767's and the intense heat generated from thousands of gallons of burning jet fuel weakened and buckled the buildings' steel framework, causing the upper floors to collapse and beginning an unstoppable chain reaction borne along by the force of gravity.

But the work would then range far beyond data-taking to sophisticated computer analysis of everything from the dynamics of burning jet fuel inside a high-rise to the flow of heat and smoke in multistory blazes and the buckling of columns and bolted connections under extreme loads.

There, flames of burning jet fuel, heating up the oxygen, which expands and shoots out the back, generating a massive amount of thrust needed to lift modern aircraft into the sky (or spin a turbine.