Sentence examples for sudden ignition from inspiring English sources

Light that once dazzled became lethal when Antonioni, after photographing a news headline about the perils of the atomic age, chose to finish L'eclisse with the sudden ignition of a street lamp on a deserted urban corner.

According to Kunio Kaiho and his colleagues at Tohoku University, in Sendai, Japan, the sudden ignition of underground oil at the Yucatán impact site could have jetted into the upper atmosphere a mass of fine black carbon, also known as soot.

A sudden ignition in the Cleveland National Forest in Orange County quickly grew to 3,399 acres Monday, and the fire was visible from as far away as Catalina Island, producing a towering plume of thick smoke.

Werner thinks the star's helium atmosphere may have been blown away by a sudden thermonuclear ignition of carbon--a theoretical possibility for relatively massive stars.

And here we were wondering if there had been a sudden re-ignition of the "history wars" (to which Windschuttle and IPA were central) when debate over (warning, I'm about to do it) European invasion and dispossession centred on the National Museum of Australia and polarised historians between the "white blindfold" and "black armband" camps.

Supernovae can be triggered in one of two ways: by the sudden re-ignition of nuclear fusion in a degenerate star; or by the gravitational collapse of the core of a massive star.

The approach is similar to British Standard BS7974 for application of fire safety engineering to the design of buildings and has been expanded to reflect on specific hydrogen safety related phenomena, including but not limited to high pressure under-expanded leaks and dispersion, spontaneous ignition of sudden hydrogen releases to air, deflagrations and detonations, etc.

After the sudden transition towards a turbulent state, significant ignition delay times were observed.

The aim of this study is to gain an insight into the physical phenomena underlying the spontaneous ignition of hydrogen following a sudden release from high-pressure storage and transition to sustained jet fire.

The sudden expansion of the channel serves the ignition and stabilization of combustion in the combustion chamber.

Some of the biggest national news stories involved Volkswagen's stunning admission that it deceptively designed its cars to cheat emissions testing, General Motor's deadly defective ignition switches and Toyota's sudden acceleration disasters.