The fuel burns, but the wick material doesn’t. The copper part is actually concentric with a 3/4-inch pipe mostly enclosing a 1/2-inch pipe. The inner pipe extends further, and there are several ...

ROME (AFP) — A huge explosion at a gas station in a Rome suburb on Friday left 45 people hurt, two of them seriously, and ...

A RECENT letter by Godsave1 described experiments on the combustion-rates of single liquid-fuel droplets. The general case of the combustion of liquid fuel in gas streams is being studied at this ...

China gives green light to nuclear reactor that burns thorium – a fuel that could power the country for 20,000 years. ... The reactor, a two-megawatt liquid-fuelled thorium molten salt reactor ...

Mass. woman recovering from burns warns about tabletop fire pit dangers 01:54. Americans are being urged not to buy or use liquid-burning portable firepits sold for tabletops and other uses ...

When fuel combusts, it is not the liquid itself that burns. Instead, it is the volatile fuel molecules hovering above the liquid that ignite on contact with oxygen and flame.

North Korea says it has tested a new solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), its first known use of the propellant in a longer-range projectile, as it seeks the capability to launch ...

Fuel cells that react liquid sodium metal with air could be the power source required to give electric airplanes much longer ranges, a new paper has proposed. The idea has yet to leave the ...

Adding a solid fuel into the equation further enhances the vehicle’s fuel economy. “The detonation wave in an RDE propagates at over 3,000 mph, which is about 100 times faster than a typical engine,” ...

North Korea's Hwasong-18 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), launched for the second time on Wednesday, uses solid-fuel technology, giving it the capability to launch with little preparation.

A liquid hydrogen fuel system now in fleet trials in Germany boasts a range of 650 miles at a gross weight of 80,000 pound and a payload of about 45,000 pounds. That leaves the Tesla Semi in the ...