Deflagrate

Word DEFLAGRATE
Character 10
Hyphenation def la grate
Pronunciations /ˈdɛfləɡɹeɪt/

Definitions and meanings of "Deflagrate"

What do we mean by deflagrate?

To burn or cause to burn with great heat and intense light. intransitive & transitive verb

To set fire to; burn; consume: as, to deflagrate oil or spirit.

To burn; burst into flame; specifically, to burn rapidly, with a sudden evolution of flame and vapor, as a mixture of charcoal and niter thrown into a red-hot crucible.

To burn with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; also, to snap and crackle with slight explosions when heated, as salt. intransitive verb

To cause to burn with sudden and sparkling combustion, as by the action of intense heat; to burn or vaporize suddenly. transitive verb

To burn with intense light and heat. Specifically, to combust subsonically through thermal conduction. verb

Burn with great heat and intense light verb

Cause to burn rapidly and with great intensity verb

To burn with intense light and heat.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Deflagrate

The word "deflagrate" in example sentences

This explosion is of a magnitude that could not be caused by anything built in to the buildings or city infrastructure diesel fuel tank for a generator wouldn't detonate like that, it would deflagrate - there's a difference. ❋ Dennis (2008)

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 length and thickness. ❋ Various (N/A)

Finally, if the amount of picric acid be still further increased under these conditions, it will undergo partial decomposition and volatilise, but will not even deflagrate. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

They are usually made of short slips of metal foil or wire, which melt or deflagrate when the current is too strong, and thus interrupt the circuit. ❋ John Munro (1889)

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 that carbonate of potash is formed. ❋ Cornelius Beringer (1886)

They deflagrate when sprinkled on fused nitre, forming carbonate of potash. ❋ Cornelius Beringer (1886)

This week's Word of the Week is actually two words - conflagrate and deflagrate. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The fame difficulty accounts for the large proportion of nitre required to deflagrate with it completely; a quantity required, not becaufe there is much combuf - tible matter to be burned, but becaufe a long conti - nued and elevated heat is neceiliiry; by which means much of the nitre is decompofed, and its vital air flies off, without having been employed in the combullion, as appears by the two thirds of the elaftic produft, which will fupport the flame of a candle. ❋ Unknown (1796)

"But with IMX-101, all that would happen is the explosive would deflagrate (burn quickly), and the shell would break into a few pieces. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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