Knocking (in a petrol engine): Difference between revisions

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Alternative term: Detonation

The spontaneous combustion of part of the fuel-air mixture in the combustion-chamber. This effect produces a knocking noise.

Please note that this is the term as it stands in the original IALA Dictionary edition (1970-1989)

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