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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



... 10,000 cells. Wires of various kinds, and from 9 inches to 29 inches in length, were instantly volatilized by the passage of the electricity thus stored up. The current induced in the secondary wire of a coil by the discharge of the condenser through the primary, was also sufficiently intense to deflagrate wires of considerable ...
— Scientific American Supplement No. 275 • Various


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


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