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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.
A kindling or setting fire to a substance; burning; combustion.
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

See also: déflagration

English

Noun

deflagration (plural deflagrations)

  1. 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".

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  • (with respect to speed of propagation): detonation

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