the spontaneous combustion or ignition of something without any external spark or flame
2.
(of diesel oil) spontaneous ignition without any external spark
Examples of 'self-ignition' in a sentence
self-ignition
Biofuels are stored in large quantities and may be susceptible to self-ignition.
Hana VĚŽNÍKOVÁ, Michaela PERĎOCHOVÁ, Martina UHROVÁ 2017, 'ASSESSMENT OF THE MOISTURE EFFECT ON GASEOUS PRODUCTS OF SELF-HEATING OF WOOD CHIPS',Transactions of the VŠB: Technical University of Ostrava, Safety Engineering Serieshttps://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/tvsbses.2017.12.issue-2/tvsbses-2017-0014/tvsbses-2017-0014.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The gel was heated in air up to the temperature of self-ignition.
MAJA JOVIC, MARINA DASIC, KONRAD HOLL, DEJAN ILIC, SLAVKO MENTUS 2009, 'Gel-combustion synthesis of CoSb2O6 and its reduction to powdery Sb2Co alloy', Journal of the Serbian Chemical Societyhttp://www.shd.org.rs/JSCS/Vol74/No1/06_4103_3808.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Decay of the coal mass contained in the mine spoil heaps often leads to self-ignition.
Daněk Tomáš, Jelínek Jan, Thomas Jan 2015, 'Material of Burned Coal Wastes Spoil Heaps As Source of Mullite for Ceramic Industry',MATEC Web of Conferenceshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/20152601004. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The presence of organic material causes self-ignition processes and fire hazards.
Gawor Łukasz 2017, 'Potential conflicts connected with the recovery of secondary materials from post miningwaste dump', Environmental & Socio-economic Studieshttp://www.degruyter.com/view/j/environ.2017.5.issue-4/environ-2017-0023/environ-2017-0023.xml?format=INT. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The values of experimentally determined temperatures of self-ignition for peat are included.
Półka Marzena 2018, 'Analysis of susceptibility of peat on its spontaneous heating and self-ignition properties',MATEC Web of Conferenceshttps://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201824700006. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The applied methods allow us to reduce the error of determining self-ignition delay time up to five percent.
Sergey P. Kulmankov, Sergejus Lebedevas, Vladimir Sinitsyn, Galina Lebedeva, SergeyS. Kulmankov, Sergey Yakovlev 2016, 'The influence of the fuel spray structure and dynamics of its formation on surfacecombustion of biofuels in diesel engines', Transporthttps://journals.vgtu.lt/index.php/Transport/article/view/1254. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)