Combustion Quotes

The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.

…trees are made of air, primarily. When they are burned, they go back to air, and in the flaming heat is released the flaming heat of the Sun which was bound in to convert the air into tree. And in the ash is the small remnant of the part which did not come from air, that came from the solid earth, instead.

There is an almost universal experience in physicists, at least of my generation, which is home-made pyrotechnics.

ANYTHING will burn with enough gasoline and dynamite.

A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.

The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it, there is no limit to the power it may generate.

The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.

Rocket engines generally are simpler than jet engines, not more complicated.

It can scarcely be denied that the fundamental phenomena which first led mankind into chemical inquiries are those of combustion.

The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination.

Fire, as we have learned to our cost, has an insatiable hunger to be fed. It is a nonliving force that can even locomote itself.

Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.

The phases of fire are craving and satiety.

Fire is fed by fire. The same small flame destroys Two stalks of wheat at once.

From the flaming and flashing of certain igneous mixtures and the terror inspired by their noise, wonderful consequences ensue which no one can guard against or endure … when a quantity of this powder, no bigger than a man’s finger, be wrapped up in a piece of parchment and ignited, it explodes with a blinding flash and a stunning noise. If a larger quantity were used, or the case was made of more solid material, the explosion would be much more violent, and the flash and noise altogether unbeatable.

A certain fire pretends to be alive; it awakens. Working its way along the hand as a conductor, it reaches the support and engulfs it; then a leaping spark closes the circle it was to trace, coming back to the eye and beyond.

Wood feeds the fire which burns it.

The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire.

Living fire begets cold, impotent ash.

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.

My pen is alight and my body aflame. Until both burn down to ash, my love and my hate will remain here in the world.

Typical of the fundamental scientific problems whose solution should lead to important industrial consequences are, for example, the release of atomic energy, which experiment has shown to exist in quantities millions of times greater than is liberated by combustion.

Unfortunately, zombies aren’t very flammable, and it went out instantly.