deflagration
Americannoun
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deflagration
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the act of deflagrating; sudden, rapid combustion.
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a sudden, explosive blast of flames; fireball.
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PG&E, in its letter this month to the county, said the cause of that fire was water that had entered the Megapack “due to the improper installation of deflagration vent shield panels.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025
This suggests that there are any number of steady-state solutions, which affect the amount of residence time gas stays in front of the deflagration.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 14, 2024
The discovery of the treasure was like a deflagration.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It oxidises most combustible substances with deflagration, and thereby converts sulphides into sulphates, arsenides into arsenates, and most metals into oxides.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer
Mr de la Place and I deflagrated a convenient quantity of nitre and charcoal in an ice apparatus, and found that twelve pounds of ice were melted by the deflagration of one pound of nitre.
From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Antoine Lavoisier
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