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Definition of Reignition
1. ignition [n -S] - See also: ignition
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reignition
Literary usage of Reignition
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicle by Roger E. Bilstein (1999)
"The IU for the Saturn V functioned just as planned, and reignition of the ...
The S-IVB reignition had appeared to be a particularly difficult sequence. ..."
2. Marine Fire Prevention, Firefighting and Fire Safety: A Comprehensive (1994)
"Possibility of Reignition. Compared with water carbon dioxide has a very limited
cooling capacity. It may not cool the fuel below its ignition temperature, ..."
3. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1916)
"This is due to the formation of explosive mixtures of acetylene and air in the
time interval between the extinction of the Same and its reignition by the ..."
4. Transactions by American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Metallurgical Society of AIME, Society of Mining Engineers of AIME., Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (U.S.). (1916)
"... either of the phosphorous match or Auer Metal type, a method of reignition of
course impossible to use with a nonvolatile fuel such as kerosene. ..."
5. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1922)
"... which may relight immediately upon withdrawing the blowpipe away from the test
piece or necessitate the reignition of the gases by means of a lighter. ..."
6. Principles of Radio Communication by John Harold Morecroft, A. Pinto, Walter Andrew Curry (1921)
"This excessive voltage may cause a reignition of the arc across a shorter path
and interfere with the constancy of the oscillations. ..."
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