exhaust-gas analyzer

noun

: a device for indicating the fuel-air ratio of the fuel mixture of an engine (as of an airplane) that consists of an element sensitive to carbon dioxide placed in the exhaust manifold

called also fuel-mixture indicator, smoke feeler

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