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  2. Rube Goldberg machine - Wikipedia

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    The Chain Reaction Contraption Contest [6] is an annual event hosted at the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in which high school teams each build a Rube Goldberg machine to complete some simple task (which changes from year to year) in 20 steps or more (with some additional constraints on size, timing, safety, etc.).

  3. Combustion - Wikipedia

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    The flames caused as a result of a fuel undergoing combustion (burning) Air pollution abatement equipment provides combustion control for industrial processes.. Combustion, or burning, [1] is a high-temperature exothermic redox chemical reaction between a fuel (the reductant) and an oxidant, usually atmospheric oxygen, that produces oxidized, often gaseous products, in a mixture termed as smoke.

  4. Spontaneous Combustion (South Park) - Wikipedia

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    "Spontaneous Combustion" is the second episode of the third season of the American animated television series South Park, and is the 33rd episode overall. It originally aired in the United States on April 14, 1999. In the episode, Kenny and many other townsfolk start dying from spontaneous combustion. Mayor McDaniels puts Randy Marsh in charge ...

  5. Flame speed - Wikipedia

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    The flame speed is the measured rate of expansion of the flame front in a combustion reaction. Whereas flame velocity is generally used for a fuel, a related term is explosive velocity, which is the same relationship measured for an explosive. Combustion engineers differentiate between the laminar flame speed and turbulent flame speed. Flame ...

  6. Barking dog reaction - Wikipedia

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    In simple terms, the 'Barking Dog' reaction is a combustion process, in which a fuel (carbon disulfide, CS 2) reacts with an oxidizing agent (nitrous oxide, N 2 O), producing heat and elemental sulfur. The flame front in the reaction is a zone of very hot, luminous gas, produced by the reactants decomposing. 8 N 2 O + 4 CS 2 → S 8 + 4 CO 2 ...

  7. Combustion instability - Wikipedia

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    The simplest example of a thermoacoustic combustion instability is perhaps that happening in a horizontal Rijke tube (see also thermoacoustics): Consider the flow through a horizontal tube open at both ends, in which a flat flame sits at a distance of one-quarter the tube length from the leftmost end.

  8. Adiabatic flame temperature - Wikipedia

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    The closest will be the hottest part of a flame, where the combustion reaction is most efficient. This also assumes complete combustion (e.g. perfectly balanced, non-smoky, usually bluish flame). Several values in the table significantly disagree with the literature [ 1 ] or predictions by online calculators.

  9. Fire triangle - Wikipedia

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    Combustion is a chemical reaction that feeds a fire more heat and allows it to continue. Once a fire has started, the resulting exothermic chain reaction sustains the fire and allows it to continue until or unless at least one of the elements of the fire is blocked: foam can be used to deny the fire the oxygen it needs