Two and four wheeler carburetor seminar report
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A carburetor (British English, see spelling differences) is a device that combines air and fuel for an internal combustion engine in the ratio suitable for combustion. It is sometimes coloquially shortened to carb in the UK and North America or carby in Australia. A carburet or carburet (and therefore carburetion or carburetion, respectively) is to mix the air and fuel or to equip (a motor) with a carburetor for that purpose. A burette or burette is a device for accurately measuring liquids.
Carburetors have been largely supplanted in the automotive industry and, to a lesser extent, in fuel injection aviation. They are still common in small engines for lawn mowers, rototillers and other equipment.
The word carburetor comes from the French carbide meaning "carbide". Carburer means combining with coal (compare also carburation). In fuel chemistry, the term has the more specific meaning of increasing the carbon (and therefore energy) content of a fluid by mixing it with a volatile hydrocarbon.