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When fuel prices increase suddenly, for instance, consumers may still fill up their empty tanks in the short run, but when prices remain high over several years, more consumers will reduce their demand for fuel by switching to carpooling or public transportation, investing in vehicles with greater fuel economy or taking other measures.
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When and fuel
When in contact with one of the electrodes in a fuel cell, this platinum increases the rate of oxygen reduction to water, either to hydroxide or hydrogen peroxide.
When considering fuel economy in automobiles two measures are commonly used – miles per gallon ( mpg ), and litres per 100 km.
A Power stroke: When the piston reaches a point just before top dead center, the spark plug ignites the fuel mixture.
When the piston moves further down and the cylinder doesn't have anymore gases, fuel mixture starts to flow to the combustion chamber and the second process of fuel compression starts.
Operation: When the piston moves from bottom dead center ( BDC ) to top dead center ( TDC ) the fresh air and fuel mixture enters the crank chamber through the intake port.
When using lower grade fuel, or worn engine the oil change interval has to shorten accordingly.
When Macduff learns of the murders of his wife and child, Malcolm consoles him unsympathetically with encouragement to take the news in “ manly ” fashion and use it to fuel his hatred of Macbeth.
When the bottle smashes on impact, the ensuing cloud of petrol droplets and vapour ignites, causing an immediate fireball followed by a raging fire as the remainder of the fuel is consumed.
When increasing concern within the company over the pricing and availability of fuel during the oil crisis of the 1970s became an issue of contention, smaller engines were considered in the interest of fuel economy.
When burned with oxygen, hydrogen gives the highest specific impulse of any commonly used fuel: around 450 seconds, compared with up to 350 seconds for kerosene.
When the energy gradient created by unleashing this fraction of the stored fuel was exhausted, the beings would enter a state of zero-energy-consumption until the universe cooled.
When they run out of thruster fuel, the satellites are at the end of their service life as they are no longer able to keep in their allocated orbital position.
When the weight of the payload and fuel are considered together, it is known as the " useful load fraction ".
When the bomb detonated, the casing would contain the explosion long enough for mechanical shock to heat and compress the fusion fuel, and for fission neutrons to ignite nuclear fusion.
When driving on a highway, convoys are also useful to conserve fuel by drafting.
When the liquid fuel reaches the flame, it vaporizes and combusts.
When carburetors are used in aircraft with piston engines, special designs and features are needed to prevent fuel starvation during inverted flight.
When the step-up rod is lowered into the main jet, it restricts the fuel flow.
When the step-up rod is raised out of the jet, more fuel can flow through it.
When the throttle is rapidly opened, airflow through the carburetor increases immediately, faster than the fuel flow rate can increase.
When the engine is cold, fuel vaporizes less readily and tends to condense on the walls of the intake manifold, starving the cylinders of fuel and making the engine difficult to start ; thus, a richer mixture ( more fuel to air ) is required to start and run the engine until it warms up.
When and prices
When the stock exchange opened this morning, many dealers were quick to purchase shares in Douglas, Lockheed and United Aircraft and prices rose substantially.
When oil prices spiked during the 1967 Oil Embargo, 1973 oil crisis, and 1979 energy crisis, Alberta's economy boomed.
When the bubble " bursts ," the share prices fall dramatically, and many companies go out of business.
When war went badly, prices rose and the sans-culottes — poor labourers and radical Jacobins – rioted ; counter-revolutionary activities began in some regions.
When prices went down, the ban was lifted.
When demand exceeds supply, suppliers tend to raise their prices, but when supply exceeds demand, suppliers will tend to decrease their prices in order to make sales.
When businesspeople perceive that the issuer is committed to a policy of rapid currency expansion, they mark up prices to cover the expected decay in the currency's value.
When the curia still took no substantial action in regards to the food shortage, Julian intervened, fixing the prices for grain and importing more from Egypt.
When not coerced legally to do otherwise, monopolies typically maximize their profit by producing fewer goods and selling them at higher prices than would be the case for perfect competition.
When the Seychellois rupee became freely floated on November 3, 2008, its value quickly fell drastically, decreasing from eight per U. S. dollar to 16, effectively doubled the prices of imports.
When international cotton prices collapsed, they switched to coffee, cocoa, bananas, and, most successfully, coconuts.
When silver prices rose relative to gold as a reaction to the California Gold Rush, silver coinage was worth more than face value, and rapidly flowed overseas for melting.
When box office prices are adjusted for inflation, it remains one of the top 100 grossing films in U. S. history.
When the calculator IC prices started to fall, Pico refocused on commercial products rather than plain ICs.
When the pound was returned to the gold standard after the war it was done on the basis of the pre-war gold price, which, since it was higher than equivalent price in gold, required prices to fall to realign with the higher target value of the pound.
) When the bid and ask prices match, a sale takes place, on a first-come-first-served basis if there are multiple bidders or askers at a given price.
When cocoa bean prices are high, farmers may invest in their crops, leading to higher yields which, in turn tends to result in lower market prices and a renewed period of lower investment.
When Martinez de Hoz assumed power as finance minister prices in the previous month had increased at an annual rate of 5, 000 % and output had declined sharply.
When prices start dropping, potential customers put off their purchase as long as possible to get the lowest price, resulting in the demand decreasing even more.
When the Liberal-supporting Daily News used official import prices to demonstrate that a loaf of bread under tariff reform would be smaller than a free trade loaf of bread, Chamberlain arranged for two loaves to be baked based upon free trade and tariff reform prices.
When farm prices fell after World War I and during the Great Depression, people looked elsewhere for employment.
When the railroad came to the Hills and refused to pay the prices demanded by nearby township of Minnesela, he was ready.
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