Glow plug

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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What Wikipedia says

In a diesel engine, a glow plug (also spelled glowplug) is a heating device used to aid starting of the engine in cold weather. This device is a pencil-shaped piece of metal with an electric heating element at the tip.

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