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A rating of a gasoline in terms of its propensity to cause knocking.
Gasoline is not a chemical compound; it is a mixture of many different compounds. By 1882, experimenters noted that spark ignition internal combustion engines knocked more on some gasolines than on others. Ideally, when the spark ignites the fuel-air mixture in the cylinder of a gasoline engine, the flame front
Monday, March 17, 2008
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