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11Liquid fuels — are those combustible or energy generating molecules that can be harnessed to create mechanical energy, usually producing kinetic energy; they also must take the shape of their container. Most liquid fuels, in widespread use, are or derived from… …
12Ethanol fuel — is ethanol (ethyl alcohol), the same type of alcohol found in alcoholic beverages. It can be used as a fuel, mainly as a biofuel alternative to gasoline, and is widely used in cars in Brazil. Because it is easy to manufacture and process and can… …
13Alcohol fuel — Although fossil fuels have become the dominant energy resource for the modern world, alcohol has been used as a fuel throughout history. The first four aliphatic alcohols (methanol, ethanol, propanol, and butanol) are of interest as fuels because …
14Cracking (chemistry) — In petroleum geology and chemistry, cracking is the process whereby complex organic molecules such as kerogens or heavy hydrocarbons are broken down into simpler molecules such as light hydrocarbons, by the breaking of carbon carbon bonds in the… …
15Methanol economy — The methanol economy is a suggested future economy in which methanol replaces fossil fuels as a means of energy storage, ground transportation fuel, and raw material for synthetic hydrocarbons and their products. It offers an alternative to the… …
16alcohol — /al keuh hawl , hol /, n. 1. Also called ethyl alcohol, grain alcohol, ethanol, fermentation alcohol. a colorless, limpid, volatile, flammable, water miscible liquid, C2H5OH, having an etherlike odor and pungent, burning taste, the intoxicating… …
17Engine knocking — Pinging redirects here. For other uses, see Ping (disambiguation). Knocking (also called knock, detonation, spark knock, pinging or pinking) in spark ignition internal combustion engines occurs when combustion of the air/fuel mixture in the… …
18Liquefied petroleum gas — (also called LPG, GPL, LP Gas, or liquid propane gas) is a flammable mixture of hydrocarbon gases used as a fuel in heating appliances and vehicles. It is increasingly used as an aerosol propellant and a refrigerant, replacing chlorofluorocarbons …
19General Motors EV1 — Infobox Automobile name = General Motors EV1 aka = manufacturer = General Motors parent company = production = 1996 1999 (1,117 units) 1997 Model Year: 660 units 1999 Model Year: 457 units assembly = GM Lansing Craft Centre, Lansing, Michigan… …
20Methanol fuel — This article is about methanol used as a fuel. For other alcohols used as fuels, see Alcohol fuel. Methanol is an alternative fuel for internal combustion and other engines, either in combination with gasoline or directly ( neat ). It is used in… …
