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How to use the word combustion in a Sentence?

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Vinyl chloride, however, has a specific and important risk in that is contains a bunch of chlorine molecules, which can form some really awful combustion byproducts, these are often very toxic and often very persistent in the environment.

Richard Peltier

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Postal Service is fully committed to the inclusion of electric vehicles as a significant part of our delivery fleet even though the investment will cost more than an internal combustion engine vehicle. The Postal Service said, as we have stated repeatedly, we must make fiscally prudent decisions in the needed introduction of a new vehicle fleet, we will continue to look for opportunities to increase the electrification of our delivery fleet in a responsible manner, consistent with our operating strategy, the deployment of appropriate infrastructure, and our financial condition, which we expect to continue to improve as we pursue our plan.

Kim Frum

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is a challenge we can sink our teeth into as engineers and I personally want to pursue not just performance but also a new allure for the internal combustion engine that the world has yet to see.

Takeshi Yamada

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Right up until now, the company has repeatedly undermined climate action, from opposing the U.K. government’s ban on internal combustion engines by 2030 to opposing car fuel economy standards in the U.S..

Jens Munch Holst

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We're talking here about some 25,000 jobs in the region; that's roughly 15% of the overall workforce, this shows how dependent the region is on combustion engines.

Mayor Starke

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

As a general business, combustion engines is most probably not growing. It is important to consolidate and seek synergies. It is another step transforming our company in the direction of electrification.

Volvo Chief Executive Hakan Samuelsson

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

These cars are the last ones to hold up the flag of power, the maximum you can imagine from an internal combustion engine, therefore these cars will rise in price, big time.

Stephan Winkelmann

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Every single one of these companies knows where the consumer is going and where the world is going ... the elimination of the internal combustion engine.

Gavin Newsom

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Does( an apparent) rise in incivility complicate problem-solving and lawmaking, more so than ideological divides between the two parties ? or does a rise in incivility merely reflect the increased partisan combustion we see every day on Capitol Hill ?

Sarah Binder

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Maximum acceleration is available immediately, while it takes a moment for internal combustion engines with even strong horsepower to reach maximum acceleration. That places new demands on drivers.

Bettina Zahnd

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Africa will most likely remain as the last bastion of internal combustion engines.

Craig Parker

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Improving combustion engines is key to sustaining our business in the long term.

Al Khowaiter

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

EPA continues to work with our state partners toward full implementation of the CCR (coal combustion residuals) regulations.

An EPA spokeswoman on Monday

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

One of the key findings in Rethinking Transportation is that the whole internal combustion engine automobile value chain will collapse within three years of the approval of autonomous vehicles, that is, if autonomous vehicles are approved in 2021, then new [internal combustion engine] vehicle sales are finished by 2024.

Tony Seba

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

China is going to be the world’s biggest market for electric cars, china has no choice. They have to wean themselves from conventional gasoline combustion cars.

Jiang Dalong

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I think there’s more to squeeze out of the internal combustion engine.

Jack Nerad

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Inside there are highly effective, catalytic gas burners which burn the gas superbly. Their unique feature is that the combustion of gas occurs at a very high temperature, about 800 degrees (Celsius). Therefore the gas burns completely, it burns very accurately, and harmful gases such as carbon monoxide or nitrogen oxides are not produced.

Mieczyslaw Kaczmarczyk

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If you smell it, it’s already a potentially dangerous situation and even ringing a doorbell or making a cell phone call or any small spark in an environment that has gas you can smell can lead to combustion, you get everyone out of the house first, and then you make the phone call after you’re outside your house.

Nathan Phillips

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It basically means you can dump a lot of heat into that fuel, when you crack the fuel, it actually makes it more combustible. It increases the amount of combustion you can create from the fuel.

Ryan Helbach

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Internal combustion autos are dead, petroleum is a finite fuel source.

Micheal Austin

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

In my college religion classes, I sometimes quote 2 Hesitations 4:3 ('There are no internal combustion engines in heaven'), i wait to see if anyone realizes that there is no such book in the Bible and therefore no such verse.

Steve Bouma-Prediger

Found on CNN
9 years ago

In addition to inhaling toxicants and carcinogens found in the hookah tobacco smoke, hookah smokers, and non-smokers who socialize with them, also inhale large quantities of charcoal combustion-generated toxic and carcinogenic emissions.

Nada Kassem

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.

Dorothy Parker

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Reggie Leach

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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