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- Air as Fuel
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- Although people
- fill up their cars
- with gasoline or
- diesel fuel, air is
- the primary fuel
- for the engine.
- Only a fraction of
- fuel is pumped into
- the combustion
- chamber compared to
- air, approximately
- 1:15. Oxygen, in
- the air, ignites
- more readily than
- does gasoline, and
- is the catalyst for
- the ignition of the
- fuel.
-
- Superchargers and
- turbochargers force
- more air, as well
- as unspent fuel
- from exhaust, into
- the combustion
- chamber making the
- resulting explosion
- more powerful than
- it would have been
- under ordinary
- carburation.
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