How does a carburetor burn fuel?
An automobile is run by an internal combustion engine. The fire power or combustion is produced internally, inside the engine. In a steam engine, the combustion is produced outside the engine. The carburetor is but one of the vital parts which help to produce the combustion inside an automobile engine. The carburetor in an automobile engine merely helps to burn the fuel. The actual. Burning of the fuel is called combustion. It is a series of explosions which takes place inside the cylinders of the engine. The fuel which is exploded is gasoline vapor mixed with air. The carburetor is a sort of atomizer which sprays the gasoline fuel where it is needed. A supply of gasoline passes into the carburetor from where it passes into a small tube. It reaches a larger tube of rushing air. The liquid gasoline is dragged along in the draft and blown to droplets and finer droplets. It becomes a fine, misty spray. In this form, the gasoline soon evaporates and becomes mixed with the draft of air. The
