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Webster 1913 Edition
Deflagration
Defˊla-gra′tion
,Noun.
[L.
deflagratio
: cf. F. déflagration
.] 1.
A burning up; conflagration.
“Innumerable deluges and deflagrations.” Bp. Pearson.
2.
(Chem.)
The act or process of deflagrating.
Webster 1828 Edition
Deflagration
DEFLAGRATION
,Noun.
The strength of spirit is proved by deflagration.
A rapid combustion of a mixture, attended with much evolution of flame and vapor, as of niter and charcoal.
This term is also applied to the rapid combustion of metals by galvanism.
Definition 2024
deflagration
deflagration
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English
Noun
deflagration (plural deflagrations)
- The act of deflagrating; an intense fire; a conflagration or explosion. Specifically, combustion that spreads subsonically via thermal conduction.
- 1849 Heinrich Rose - A Practical Treatise of Chemical Analysis
- If, for example, the mixture of oxygen and hydrogen was twenty volumes, and three volumes of oxygen remained after the deflagration, the mixture consisted of six volumes of hydrogen and six volumes of oxygen.
- 1998 Michael R Bromwich - The FBI Laboratory: An Investigation into Laboratory Practices & Alleged Misconduct
- Black powder . . . It produces a relatively fast burn or deflagration rather than a detonation and is classified as "low explosive".
- 1849 Heinrich Rose - A Practical Treatise of Chemical Analysis
Translations
intense fire
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Antonyms
- (with respect to speed of propagation): detonation