The result is a self-confining ellipsoid of hot gases, roiling and fusing within a reaction chamber.
Home Office Pathologist Prof Guy Rutty told the inquest Sonny had suffered head injuries, burns and had inhaled hot gases.
The damaged panel allowed searing hot gases to seep into the wing on re-entry, causing the craft to lose control and disintegrate.
They are also some 80% quieter because the mass of slower-moving air shrouds the noisy hot gases coming from the rear of the jet.
The barrel heats up as a result of the hot expanding gases in the barrel and the friction from the bullets that are propelled by these hot gases along a helical path inside the barrel.
The investigators watched as the fire quickly consumed the couch, sending upward a plume of smoke that hit the ceiling and spread outward, creating a thick layer of hot gases overhead an efficient radiator of heat.
Way back in November of 1985, on just its second mission, Atlantis experienced a blow-back of hot gases past the primary O-rings in one of its solid rocket boosters, resulting in serious erosion of said O-ring.
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The need for the parts of an engine to fit together tightly enough to stop hot gases seeping where they should not, and yet not so tightly that they rub on each other in a way that wears them out, is a constant bane of engine designers.
Combined-cycle gas turbines, which use hot exhaust gases from one turbine to generate steam to turn a second one, can transform 6, 800 Btu of gas into a kilowatt-hour of electricity, enough to light one lightbulb for ten hours.
Researchers say greenhouse gases are making China's hot afternoons and nights even worse.
The explosions were apparently the result of gases that are produced when nuclear fuel reaches extremely hot temperatures and begins to break down.
Yet at hot springs and thermal spas where radon typically is found in the air or water along with carbon dioxide, sulphur gases and trace elements of other minerals, health-seekers sing its praises.
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