The teacher will use a small candle flame to demonstrate a chemical reaction between the candle wax and oxygen in the air. Students will see a molecular animation of the combustion of methane and ...

Combustion is another name for burning. In a combustion reaction, fuel is burned and reacts with oxygen to release energy. Katie: Dr. Tim Gregory knows a thing or two about creating things that go ...

This module connects ideas across topics in a first semester introductory chemistry course to explore the impacts of combustion reactions. By motivating students to understand the relationship between ...

But what if the initial local energy comes from a chemical reaction within a substance itself? This is where we come back to hay, which may be the most iconic example of spontaneous combustion.

But in Europe in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, upwards of a dozen cases of supposed spontaneous combustion (and ...

Combustion dynamics involves complex coupled fluid and chemical reactions. Researchers use computational fluid dynamics to help them better understand and control the process. If a system that ...

This engine combusts its fuel and oxidizer in a rotating ring-shaped channel, and the resulting shockwaves create a sustained combustion reaction that makes the engine more efficient than ...

Combustion is a type of chemical reaction called a redox reaction, short for ‘reduction-oxidation’. Here, one substance loses electrons and the other gains them. The losing substance is called ...