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Deflagrate

verb
(past & past part. deflagrated; pres. part. deflagrating)
1.
Cause to burn rapidly and with great intensity.
2.
Burn with great heat and intense light.






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"Deflagrate" Quotes from Famous Books



... temperature. The other bodies (coals, shales, &c.) differ considerably among themselves in the temperature at which they commence to burn. Some, such as anthracite, burn with little or no flame, but most give off gases, which burn with a luminous flame. They deflagrate when sprinkled on fused nitre, forming carbonate of potash. In making this test the student must remember that sulphur and, in fact, all oxidisable bodies similarly deflagrate, but it is only in the case of carbon compounds ...
— A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. • Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob Beringer



Words linked to "Deflagrate" :   burn, deflagration, combust



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