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the diesel engine.
it takes one ignition to start, then it runs off of (autoignition) ignition from heat caused by high compression.
compression ignition (autoignition) causes ignition to happen a little earlier than spark ignition engines (gas engines) which is less vulnerable to risk of engine knocking or wasted power when dealing with high compression.
-maddmatt
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