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'''Ignition''' occurs when the heat produced by a reaction becomes sufficient to sustain a chemical reaction. The sudden change from a cold [[gas]] to a hot [[plasma (physics)|plasma]] in a plasma source is also called ignition.
:''See also: [[Making fire]]''
Other uses of ignition include:
* in [[chemistry]], it refers to heating a material to the point that it spontaneously [[combustion|combusts]], or until it ceases to lose mass.
* in [[nuclear fusion]], it refers to the conditions under which a plasma can be maintained by fusion reactions without external energy input.
* in [[Fabrication_(semiconductor)|semiconductor processing]], ignition is the process of starting up a plasma generator. In [[direct current|DC]] plasma systems, this involves a transition from voltaic arcing to sustained and delocalized plasma generation.
* an [[ignition system]] is a method for activating and controlling the combustion of fuel in an internal combustion engine, often through the use of a key
'''Ignition''' may also refer to:
* [[Ignition (song)]], a hip hop song by artist R. Kelly
* [[Ignition, Portable Sounds]], a [[christian rock/hip hop]] song by [[tobyMac]]
* [[Ignition (Trivium song)]], a song by American metal band Trivium
* [[Ignition (album)]], an album by the punk rock band The Offspring
* [[Ignition (computer game)]], a top-down racing game for PC published in 1997
* [[Ignition (event)]], a Burning Man regional event held in Montreal, Quebec
* [[Ignition (film)]], a 2001 film
* [[Ignition Entertainment]], a computer video games company founded in 2002
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