muffler
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thumb|right|Silencer (silver) and exhaust pipe on a [[Ducati motorcycle]] thumb|right|A silencer cut open to show the insulation, chambers and piping inside the shell
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thumb|right|Silencer (silver) and exhaust pipe on a [[Ducati motorcycle]] thumb|right|A silencer cut open to show the insulation, chambers and piping inside the shell
A muffler (North American and Australian English) or silencer (British English) is a device for reducing the noise emitted by the exhaust of an internal combustion engine—especially a noise-deadening device forming part of the exhaust system of an automobile.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “muffler” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.