carburetion
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of carburetion
Example Sentences
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Tools such as trimmers, mowers and blowers generally use engine technologies long abandoned by carmakers: air cooling, carburetion and, often, two-cycle engines fueled by an oil-gas mix .
From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2010
This is in effect a rotary air pump, separate from the engine but driven by its exhaust gases, which furnishes sea-level pressures to the carburetion system far beyond the altitude range of the integral supercharger.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fuel metering is accomplished with electronic injection or precision carburetion.
From Time Magazine Archive
He comes out here in his mother's '94 Chevy Astrovan, goosed with nitrous-oxide carburetion.
From Time Magazine Archive
The process of carburetion is combining the volatile vapors which evaporate from the hydrocarbon liquids with certain proportions of air to form an inflammable gas.
From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Pag?, Victor Wilfred
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