octane rating
81Russell Earl Marker — (March 12, 1902 ndash; March 23, 1995) was an eccentric American chemist who invented the octane rating system when he was working at the Ethyl Corporation. Later in his career he went on to found a steroid industry in Mexico when he successfully …
82Methanol 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… …
83Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah — The Armstrong Siddeley Cheetah is a British air cooled aircraft radial engine.DevelopmentThe basic design of the Cheetah remained unchanged since its introduction in 1919. It was the first engine of its type to be certified for 1,200 hours of… …
84Alternative fuel vehicle — refers to a vehicle that runs on a fuel other than traditional gasoline or diesel; any method of powering an engine that does not involve solely petroleum (e.g. electric car, gasoline electric hybrid, solar powered). Due to a combination of heavy …
85Armstrong Siddeley Tiger — The Armstrong Siddeley Tiger was a British 14 cylinder air cooled aircraft radial engine developed by Armstrong Siddeley in the 1930s from their Jaguar engine. The engine was built in a number of different versions but performance and dimensions… …
86P-51 variants — The North American Aviation P 51 Mustang was an American long range single seat fighter aircraft that entered service with Allied air forces in the middle years of World War II. This article is a guide to some of the basic dimensional data,… …
87Vladimir Haensel — (1 September, 1914 – 15 December, 2002) was an American chemical engineer who invented the platforming process a plat inum catalytic process for re forming petroleum hydrocarbons into gasoline. In addition, he was influential in the creation of… …
88alcohol — /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… …
89performance number — The “knock” rating of an engine. It is expressed as an octane when this figure is below 100. See octane rating …
90isooctane — [ī΄sō äk′tān, ī΄səäk′tān] n. [ ISO + OCTANE] a liquid hydrocarbon, (CH3) 2CHCH2C(CH3) 3, used with normal heptane to prepare antiknock rating standards and arbitrarily assigned an octane rating of 100 …
