Vehicle equipment

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glow plug

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

An electrically heated wire that helps ignite diesel fuel when a compression ignition engine is cold and the compression process may not raise the air to a high enough temperature for ignition.

graphite

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

Mineral consisting of a form of carbon; it is soft, black, and lustrous and has a greasy feeling; used in pencils, crucibles, lubricants, paints, and polishes.

A rotary engine that draws energy from a fuel-air mixture. A compressor raises the pressure and temperature of the inlet air. The air is then moved into a burner, where fuel is injected and combusted ...

gas chromatography

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

Method for separating mixtures based on differences in the speed at which they migrate over or through a stationary phase (a substance that shows different affinities for different compounds).

gas diffusion

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

Mixing of two gases caused by random molecular motions. Gases diffuse very quickly; liquids diffuse much more slowly, and solids diffuse at very slow (but often measurable) rates. Molecular ...

greenhouse gases

Automotive; Vehicle equipment

Gases, such as carbon dioxide, NOx, methane, and water vapor, that help capture heat from the sun in the lower atmosphere of the earth. As the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere increases, ...