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Automobile
Of or relating to any vehicle, usually designed to carry passengers, that operates on ordinary roads and typically has four wheels and a gasoline or diesel internal-combustion engine.
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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 sensor. Also called ...
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 "balancing."
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 acids follow the ...
