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theBEAST
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I have been told that compressing the mixture would make the explosion "more powerful". However I cannot wrap my head around why it would be more powerful. Is it because by compressing the mixture potential energy is formed and thus igniting the mixture would release the potential energy from the gasoline plus the potential energy of the compressed mixture? In this sense we do get a "more powerful" explosion but I don't think it makes much of a difference because the internal combustion chamber is so small.