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combustion

Burning, defined in chemical terms as the rapid combination of a substance with oxygen, accompanied by the evolution of heat and usually light. A slow-burning candle flame and the explosion of a mixture of petrol vapour and air are extreme examples of combustion. Combustion is an exothermic reaction as heat energy is given out.



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Finally, decades of research have provided no evidence of an extrapulmonary transport (including via olfactory neuronal pathways) of particles associated with cigarette smoking; smoking exposes the individual to literally kilograms of a particulate combustion product that includes ultrafine particles.
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