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In a gasoline engine, the area in the cylinder head where the air-and-fuel mixture is burned is called the

A. combustion chamber.
B. piston.
C. intake valve.
D. cylinder.

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combustion chamber.

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In a gasoline engine, the area in the cylinder head where the air-and-fuel mixture is burned is called the combustion chamber.

Option (A) is correct .

Combustion chamber

It is a heat engine where fuel is burnt in the presence of air and mechanical power is generated when fuel is burnt .

Thus the process of burning of fuel in presence of air is known as combustion .

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