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Deflagration   Listen
noun
Deflagration  n.  
1.
A burning up; conflagration. "Innumerable deluges and deflagrations."
2.
(Chem.) The act or process of deflagrating.





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"Deflagration" Quotes from Famous Books



... oxidation is effected through the addition of a substance containing oxygen (for instance, the nitrate or chlorate of potash) and the heating is accompanied by a lively deflagration and crackling noise, it is termed detonation. By this process we frequently effect the oxidation of a substance, and thus we prove the presence or the absence of a certain class of substances. For instance, if we detonate (as it is termed by the ...
— A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe • Anonymous


Words linked to "Deflagration" :   combustion, burning


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