Crossword-Solution: DEFLAGRATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Deflagration | n. | A burning up; conflagration. |
| Deflagration | n. | The act or process of deflagrating. |
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| the rapid burning away of anything in a destructive fire | 1 answer |
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Sentences with DEFLAGRATION (5)
The engineer, therefore, resolved to make and use this combustible, although he was aware that it had certain serious inconveniences, such as inflaming at 170° instead of 240°, and a too instantaneous deflagration for firearms.
The manner in which picric acid will decompose is thus dependent upon the initial temperature of the decomposition, and if the surrounding material absorb heat as fast as it is produced by the decomposition, there will be no explosion and no deflagration.
The chemical constituents of Henbane are "hyoscyamine," a volatile alkaloid, with a bitter principle, "hyoscypricin" (especially just before flowering), also nitrate of potash, which causes the leaves, when burnt, to sparkle with a deflagration, and other inorganic salts.
Priestley: In the deflagration of the inflammable and dephlogisticated airs, the airs unite with violence--become red-hot--and, on cooling, totally disappear.
This process is, however, liable to considerable inconveniency; it is dangerous to make use of oxygen gas at the beginning of the experiment for fear of deflagration, which is even liable to happen when common air is employed.