How to Use combustion chamber in a Sentence

combustion chamber

noun

• 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 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
• 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
• The launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 this morning was aborted at literally the last second -- the sensors detected too high a pressure in a combustion chamber in one of the engines.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2012
• The ratio of ammonia versus oxygen in the combustion chamber has to be very accurate.
  — Costas Paris, WSJ, 27 May 2021
• 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
• The anomaly occurred in the rocket's second-stage, the Zefiro 40, and an immediate analysis pointed to a drop in pressure in the combustion chamber of the segment.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 6 Jan. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Then it’s routed to a rocket combustion chamber where it is mixed with liquid hydrogen fuel and ignited to produce thrust.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 26 June 2020
• This design allowed for bigger valves, allowing much more air into the combustion chamber.
  — Matt Crisara, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2022
• 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
• The researchers say that directly mixing hydrogen with diesel in the combustion chamber would increase NOx pollution.
  — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Ars Technica, 7 Dec. 2022
• On board any rocket (a chemical rocket, that is) is a fuel tank, an oxidizer tank, and something to spark an explosive reaction in the combustion chamber.
  — Amy Shira Teitel, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2018
• 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
• 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
• Typically a spacecraft moves by igniting its fuel in a combustion chamber and expelling hot gases.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 3 Sep. 2020
• The company later said an investigation determined there was a breach in a high-pressure line carrying cryogenic liquid oxygen to the first-stage combustion chamber.
  — John Antczak, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Jan. 2021
• Creating central air conditioning for the main combustion chamber—a pressure cooker suitable for Dante’s sixth level of hell—required some novel thinking.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 4 July 2021
• 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
• 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
• Just as an example, a rocket nozzle often has a complicated network of coolant pipes surrounding it, with cryogenic propellants pumped through to keep the nozzle from overheating when the fuel is pumped into the combustion chamber and ignited.
  — Ned Potter, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Mar. 2023
• Nuclear thermal propulsion involves a rocket engine in which a nuclear reactor replaces the combustion chamber and burns liquid hydrogen as a fuel.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 25 Jan. 2023
• Burning liquid hydrogen in today’s engines is still expected to require slight modifications, such as a shorter combustion chamber and better seals.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 14 Aug 2024