combustion

     

Combustion or burning is a complex sequence of exothermic chemical reactions between a fuel an an oxidant accompanied by the production of heat or both heat and light in the form of either a glow or flames.

Trivia about combustion

  • The act or process of burning
  • This synonym for "burning" is the name of a "chamber" where rockets burn fuel
  • From the Latin for "burn up", it's the process of rapid oxygenation & temperature rise associated with burning
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, IL.) Designed to take advantage of available supply, the 3-fuel mix of Argonne's omnivorous engine means the computer has to solve a new problem dozens of times a second, as it figures what mix to use for each firing, also called this event