Ignition

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Ignition may refer to:

  • Firelighting, the human act of creating a fire for warmth, cooking and other uses
  • Combustion, exothermic chemical reactions between a fuel and an oxidant accompanied by the production of heat and conversion of chemical species
  • Minimum ignition energy, the minimum amount of energy required to ignite a combustible vapor, gas or dust cloud

Media

  • Ignition (video game), a top-down racing game for PC published in 1997
  • Ignition (2001 film), directed by Yves Simoneau
  • Ignition Entertainment, a computer video games company founded in 2002

Music

Fusion

  • Fusion ignition, the point at which a nuclear fusion reaction becomes self-sustaining
  • National Ignition Facility, fusion research facility located at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California

Vehicles

  • Ignition system, a method for activating and controlling the combustion of fuel in an internal combustion engine
  • Ignition coil, an induction coil in an automobile's ignition system that raises the battery's voltage to the levels necessary for a spark to ignite the fuel
  • H.E.I., high energy ignition, an electronic ignition system used by General Motors from 1974 to the mid-1980s

Other

  • Ignition (event), a Burning Man regional event held in Montreal, Quebec
  • Ignition (student training), a transition and mentorship program that is implemented in high schools across the United States

See also

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