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Dealing with vehicles or machines used for travel or motion, especially cars.

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bimetallic sensor

Automotive; Automobile

Consists of thermocouple, an arm made of two dissimilar metals with different rates of thermal expansion, that flexes in accordance with temperature changes. Used as a temperature ...

biodiesel

Automotive; Automobile

Diesel fuel made from animal or vegetable fats.

blueprinting

Automotive; Automobile

Dismantling engine and reassembling it to exact specifications and tolerances. This process may help to improve engine performance, smoothness, and reliability. Sometimes called ...

battery acid

Automotive; Automobile

Electrolyte (usually sulphuric acid) in each of the battery cells.

bound electrons

Automotive; Automobile

Electrons in the inner orbits around the nucleus of the atom, they are difficult to move out of orbit.

Abegg's rule

Automotive; Automobile

Empirical rule that the solubility of salts of alkali metals with strong acids decreases from lithium to caesium, i.e., with increase of relative atomic mass, and those with weak ...

afterpeak bulkhead

Automotive; Automobile

First main transverse bulkhead forward of the sternpost.