At 7,000 rpm, a spark plug ignites the air/fuel mixture nearly 60 times per second. Any one of those 60 sparks going amiss can at best be mildly annoying, and at worst cost you a race or an engine.

Spark plugs are essential to the running of a vehicle, helping ignite the mixture of air and fuel to provide combustion to the engine. There are three specific parts of a spark plug, a central ...

Something about engine spark plugs that rarely seems to get mentioned is indexing. What is it, actually? Should you index the spark plugs on your engine?

Using high-performance computers and quantum mechanical methods, researchers have simulated processes that reveal how the "biological spark plug" works in the biomolecular motors of cells. The ...

(Nanowerk News) Using high-performance computers and quantum mechanical methods, researchers at Heidelberg University have simulated processes that reveal how the “biological spark plug” works in the ...

Using high-performance computers and quantum mechanical methods, researchers at Heidelberg University have simulated processes that reveal how the “biological spark plug” works in the biomolecular ...