Which mechanism causes decreased nitrous oxide production when air-fuel ratio decreases inside a lean-burn engine?

💡 Explanation

Lower air-fuel results in lower temperatures, because decreased temperatures results in exponentially fewer molecular collisions exceeding activation energy due to the Arrhenius constant in the exponential term; therefore less N₂O forms, rather than increased production from turbulence under rich conditions.

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