octane rating in a sentence
Examples
- Q : Faced with high fuel costs, could motorists realize some savings by mixing octane ratings?
- There are other products in the alkylate effluent, however, so the octane rating will vary accordingly.
- This increased resistance to thermal breakdown, much as these isomer types improve octane rating in piston engines.
- By 1986, a version of this with became available; it needs fuel with a higher octane rating.
- Here in Ottawa, Canada, the highest octane rating of most gas stations is only 91 or 93.
- For example, isooctane results from combining butylene with isobutane and has an octane rating of 100 by definition.
- Knocking can be reduced by increasing the gasoline's resistance to autoignition, which is expressed by its octane rating.
- They are not designed to adjust to the octane rating, but might have that effect to a limited extent.
- He then began work at the Ethyl Corporation where he came up with the concept of the octane rating.
- New Zealand's unleaded petrol was of a low octane rating, meaning that initially only uncatalyzed cars were on offer.