In a chemical reaction, atoms in the reactants combine in new and different ways to form the molecules of the products. Students may be surprised that water can be produced from combustion. Since we ...

Combustion reactions are used to heat our homes, power most cars, and to generate a lot of our electricity. Image caption, A fire needs a fuel, oxygen, and heat.

"We're taking carbon dioxide, a waste product of combustion, and we're pushing that combustion reaction backwards with very high selectivity to a useful fuel," Rondinone said.

In effect, the team were able to produce a complicated chemical reaction, essentially reversing the combustion process, with relative ease and an initial conversion rate of some 63 percent.

Combustion is a type of chemical reaction called a redox reaction, short for ‘reduction-oxidation’. June 15, 2025 e-Paper. LOGIN Account. eBooks Subscribe GIFT FRONT PAGE. Search.

Fuel flow, pressure and heat fluctuations drive combustion oscillations in rocket engines. According to the researchers, who report their work in Light: Science & Applications, the new camera could be ...

The group's paper, "Powerful, Soft Combustion Actuators for Insect-Scale Robots," was published Sept. 14 in Science.The lead author is postdoctoral researcher Cameron Aubin, Ph.D. '23.

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 ...

Combustion scientists have worked for years to better understand the thousands of chemical reactions that take place during the combustion process, said Sandia's Ahren Jasper, the study's lead author.

Illustration of the ultrafast LS-CUP laser camera that images events during combustion. (Credit: Yogeshwar Nath Mishra and Peng Wang) In a recent study published in Light: Science & Applications, an ...