How to Use combustion chamber in a Sentence

combustion chamber

noun
  • The process begins when air and fuel are drawn into the combustion chamber.
    — Vikram Mittal, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Rather, the heat of the combustion chamber caused a layer of liquid to form on the surface of the solid pentane.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 2014
  • The new type of vortex burner can adjust the flame direction along the height of the combustion chamber.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2025
  • This is the compression stroke of the engine, and the valves will be closed sealing off the combustion chamber to moisture.
    — John Paul Senior Manager Public Affairs and Traffic Safety Aaa Northeast, Hartford Courant, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Cooling the air raises its density, which puts that much more oxygen in the combustion chamber.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2018
  • And there were two spark plugs per cylinder, mounted in the sides of the combustion chamber rather than using a single one in the center.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 16 Oct. 2023
  • This is mixed with jet fuel and burned in the combustion chamber, which creates a jet, propelling the aircraft forward.
    — The Economist, 24 Feb. 2021
  • One tactic is to increase a gas turbine engine’s bypass ratio so that more air flows around the combustion chamber instead of through it.
    — Jennifer Walter, Discover Magazine, 15 Oct. 2022
  • This design allowed for bigger valves, allowing much more air into the combustion chamber.
    — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2022
  • The ratio of ammonia versus oxygen in the combustion chamber has to be very accurate.
    — Costas Paris, WSJ, 27 May 2021
  • These smokers are super efficient and rely upon a feeder to feed the pellets from a hopper to the combustion chamber.
    — John Sass, Field & Stream, 27 Sep. 2023
  • This century-old technology is located in the combustion chamber and mounted near the top of the engine in the cylinder head.
    — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Typically a spacecraft moves by igniting its fuel in a combustion chamber and expelling hot gases.
    — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 3 Sep. 2020
  • In contrast, liquid-fuel missiles use fuel and oxidizer pumped into a combustion chamber, which combust when mixed and burned.
    — Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The sheer amount of fuel being injected into the combustion chamber allows for adequate cooling.
    — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2022
  • Instead of causing the gas to heat and expand by burning it in a combustion chamber, the gas was heated by coming into contact with a nuclear reactor.
    — Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 22 July 2024
  • In a small, secondary combustion chamber with a separate intake valve, a rich mixture lights off to burn a much leaner mixture in the primary combustion chamber.
    — Michael Jordan, Car and Driver, 9 July 2020
  • Skyfall appears to replace that combustion chamber with a compact nuclear reactor.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 22 June 2026
  • The investigation determined there was a breach in a high-pressure line carrying cryogenic liquid oxygen to the first-stage combustion chamber.
    — orlandosentinel.com, 5 Aug. 2020
  • And while nitrogen can contribute to an engine’s thrust—since it’s being heated in the combustion chamber and expelled through the nozzle—the exhaust speed must be greater than the spacecraft’s speed.
    — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 26 June 2020
  • According to Kook and his team, the concentration of a gas—hydrogen, in this case—can be made to vary within different sections of the combustion chamber.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Ars Technica, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The result is a complex, attention-absorbing presentation of many interlinked parts, with a combustion chamber at its center.
    — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2023
  • If nitromethane goes into the combustion chamber and doesn’t ignite, liquid fuel has no place to go, and the engine will explode, ejecting shrapnel and engulfing a car and its driver in flames.
    — Rachel Kushner, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
  • The researchers say that directly mixing hydrogen with diesel in the combustion chamber would increase NOx pollution.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Ars Technica, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Under the hood, most modern engines feature direct injection, where fuel is squirted directly into the combustion chamber.
    — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 31 May 2023
  • Molten plastic is then fed into the engine’s combustion chamber as additional fuel to burn alongside its regular liquid propellants.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
  • While previous tests lasted only a fraction of a second due to the risk of melting combustion chambers, the team recently ran the turbine for 303 seconds.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 27 Feb. 2026
  • However, an anomaly in the second stage led to an immediate drop in pressure in the combustion chamber, BBC reports.
    — Joe Wituschek, BGR, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Chemical Smell Chemical scents can be produced when the heat exchanger is not properly cycling heat from the combustion chamber into the plenum.
    — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Clear fuel in the hybrid rockets, along with the use of high speed cameras, allows for visuals of what happens inside the combustion chambers, providing valuable insights into the process.
    — Theresa Bourke, Twin Cities, 1 June 2026

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