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Primers may be used to help start the engine. They can draw fuel from fuel tanks and vaporize fuel directly into piston cylinders. Engines are difficult to start during cold weather, and the fuel primer helps because otherwise there will not be enough heat available to vaporize the fuel in the
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The power output of small- and medium-sized petrol engines (along with equivalent engines using other fuels) is usually measured in
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which typically use compression ignition. Another key difference to diesel engines is that petrol engines typically have a lower
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of about 20-30% (approximately half that of some diesel engines).
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The first practical petrol engine was built in 1876 in Germany by
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Internal combustion engine designed to run on gasoline
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Index

Petrol engines

AMC 232
internal combustion engine
petrol
liquefied petroleum gas
ethanol blends
spark ignition
diesel engines
compression ratio
History of the internal combustion engine
Nicolaus August Otto
Eugen Langen
Étienne Lenoir
Siegfried Marcus
George Brayton

Otto cycle
two-stroke cycle
Miller cycle
Atkinson cycle
straight engines
V engines
flat engines
W engines
other layouts
Wankel engines
Compression ratio § Petrol engines
Internal combustion engine cooling
air-cooled

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