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单词 external combustion
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external combustion
external combustion n. Engineering (in an engine) combustion of the fuel outside the chamber where the force is developed and motion produced (as in a steam engine or a turbine); usually attributive; cf. internal combustion n. 2.
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1824 R. Phillips Four Dialogues 176 The atomic motion, transferred by the fixation of the gases in the process of the external combustion, passes through the substance of the vessel containing the water.
1890 J. H. Cotterill Steam Engine (ed. 2) iv. 104 An engine of this class was proposed by Dr. Joule, as an external combustion engine.
1922 Gas Manuf., Distribution & Use (Brit. Commerc. Gas Assoc.) ii. 95/1 The fact that a gas engine works through the explosion of a mixture of gas and air inside the cylinder of the engine led to the adoption of the term ‘internal combustion engine’ in contradistinction with the steam engine, which is driven by ‘external combustion’—the steam being produced in a separate boiler.
2007 Appl. Thermal Engin. 27 802/1 The Stirling engine is an external combustion reciprocating engine developed by Robert Stirling in 1816.
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