avgas
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See also: av-gas
English
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[edit]A blend of aviation + gasoline.
Pronunciation
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[edit]avgas (countable and uncountable, plural avgases or avgasses)
- (aviation) Gasoline fuel for piston-engined aircraft.
- Synonyms: 100LL, 94UL
- Hypernyms: petrol, gasoline, gas (especially North America)
- Coordinate terms: mogas, autogas; avtur, jet fuel
- 1988, Kas Thomas, Fuel and oil systems: basic and advanced light plane maintenance:
- Cylinder cracks are nothing new, however, and there is no reason to expect autogas-burning engines to have a higher incidence of head cracking than avgas-users
- 1994, Michael J. Kroes with Thomas W. Wild, Aircraft powerplants:
- In the area of autogas volatility, a Reid vapor pressure of 9.0 to 15 is very common, compared to the vapor pressure of avgas, which is 5.5 to 7
- 2006, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, The AOPA pilot: voice of general aviation, volume 49:
- Autogas can be obtained for a fraction of the cost of avgas, but its use is not without controversy.
Swedish
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[edit]avgas c
- (often in the plural) exhaust gas, exhaust
- höga halter av avgaser i luften
- high levels of exhaust fumes in the air
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