Quotes About Combustion

The Incas were right to worship the sun, Father. God is fire. Combustion is the one inarguable blessing. A tree, oil, coal, a man, a civilization, a soul. They've all got to burn sometime. The warmth made by their passing may be the salvation of others. The ultimate value of the Bible, the Constitution, or any work of literature, really, is that they all burn very well, and for a while they keep back the cold.

The Incas were right to worship the sun, Father," the Fireman said to Father Storey. "God is fire. Combustion is the one inarguable blessing. A tree, oil, coal, a man, a civilization, a soul. They've all got to burn sometime. The warmth made by their passing may be the salvation of others. The ultimate value of the Bible, or the Constitution, or any work of literature, really, is that they all burn very well, and for a while they keep back the cold.

Nikolaus Otto built and sold the first internal-combustion gasoline engine in 1861, and Rudolf Diesel built his engine in 1897

The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.

Don't. Shoot. The air is full of hydrogen!

No one wanted to spontaneously combust into flames, especially not in traffic.' – Sundown

However, the inevitable happened and one of the barrels exploded

By burning through coal and oil deposits, humans are putting carbon back into the air that has been sequestered for tens—in most cases hundreds—of millions of years. In the process, we are running geologic history not only in reverse but at warp speed.

But life is not the wax or wick of the candle, it is the burning. It is not the complex nitrates and the carbon compounds in which it sits but their combustion.

The trick is to think of life as a process rather than a substance. When a candle is burning, there is a flame that clearly carries energy. When we put the candle out, the energy doesn't "go" anywhere. The candle still contains energy in its atoms and molecules. What happens, instead, is that the process of combustion has ceased. Life is like that: it's not "stuff"; it's a set of things happening. When that process stops, life ends.

I struck my match, she poured out her gasoline. We burn now. All the time.

Jimmy Finn was not burned in the calaboose, but died a natural death in a tan vat, of a combination of delirium tremens and spontaneous combustion. When I say natural death, I mean it was a natural death for Jimmy Finn.

Life is known to be a process of combustion; intellect is the light produced by this process.

You're a firestarter honey...just one big Zippo lighter

Maybe that's what happens when a tornado meets a volcano

Part of me wanted to run away from him screaming, Fire! A more reckless part was tempted to see how close I could get without... combusting.

Now for the really fun part," Jenny said when Maya was done. "Here's a box of matches. Start lighting." Maya's eyes widened. With this much fuel on the dry grass, and with the wind blowing a gale, even one match could instantly combust and burn her. "You're crazy.

Fleming had good reason for acquiring the longbows. He intended to teach his men to use them 'to hurl incendiary charges into German petrol dumps'.30 Without fuel, Hitler's tanks and jeeps would be trapped inside their beachhead.

The fact that automobiles pollute only becomes a problem of sufficient magnitude to attract public attention when the far worse problems that the internal combustion engine solves vanished from view.

Ethanol's not an ideal fuel.

Phlogiston was without color, smell, weight, or taste. When you burned something, you were dephlogisticating it—that is, driving all of the phlogiston out of the material. Often this left behind only ash.

For two hundred years, human economic activity has largely consisted of digging up fossil fuels and setting them alight

the tilting of an eyebrow. This was too obscure a hieroglyphic for the Vicar to decipher, no matter how Miss Armstrong concentrated the pure fire of her being in the muscles of her forehead. One day she would self-immolate... Spontaneous combustion caused by an eyebrow left to smolder a moment too long.

You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.