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Have you ever been driving down the highway wondering what your motor is really doing thousands of times a minute? YouTuber Matt Mikka has opened a window into the inner workings of the internal ...
And when a see-through internal combustion engine meets a super slow-mo camera, magical things happen. What Sandlin is showing in super slow-mo is how a four-stroke engine works. The strokes of ...
With that, many scientists declared that breathing was nothing but slow combustion—a constant burning—inside us. If slow fires burned inside us all the time, why couldn’t they suddenly flare up?
For, as was pointed out in the paper on “The Slow Combustion of Ethane” recently published by Mr. S. G. Hill and me, 2 there has been, so far, no real experimental proof about the initial ...
The slow laminar burning speed of gasoline poses an interesting problem when used as a fuel for an internal combustion engine. Since this is best represented using metric measurements, ignore the ...
Two recent papers by S. Lenher 1 on the slow thermal oxidation of ethylene afford very striking confirmation of a modification of Bodenstein's mechanism 2 for the oxidation of acetylene ...
The Slow Mo Guys are back with another video, this one showing a full iMac system being obliterated by a carefully placed combustion engine. As with the team's past videos, we get to watch the ...
It’s the easily controlled manner of slow combustion that we’re all familiar with since we started sitting around campfires. A diagram of the JAXA rotating detonation engine, showing the ...
YouTube channel Warped Perception added a glass head to a combustion engine and recorded it running with a super slow motion camera. The footage captured shows the valves injecting fuel and air.
Have you ever been driving down the highway wondering what your motor is really doing thousands of times a minute? YouTuber Matt Mikka has opened a window into the inner workings of the internal ...
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