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Definition of Backfiring
1. backfire [v] - See also: backfire
Lexicographical Neighbors of Backfiring
Literary usage of Backfiring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chemistry of Materials of the Machine and Building Industries by Robert Benjamin Leighou (1917)
"... at a speed greater than the velocity of backfiring, an explosive mixture of
gas (or vapor) and air, into a bed of incandescent, granular, ..."
2. Electric Ignition for Combustion Motors by Forrest R. M.E. Jones (1912)
"This system has a feature relative to backfiring into the intake that does not
appear in other systems. If the motor is rotated at very slow speed, ..."
3. The Eyes of the Army and Navy by Albert H. Munday (1917)
"Continuous backfiring is detrimental to the engine and should not be permitted.
... Causes for Defects of Engines backfiring. Spark too far advanced. ..."
4. Gas-engine Principles: With Explanations of the Operation, Parts by Roger Bradbury Whitman (1912)
"backfiring from this cause may be prevented by opening the gasoline valve a little
to make ... Another cause of backfiring is a worn and leaky inlet valve, ..."
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