deflagrate

• This week's Word of the Week is actually two words - conflagrate and deflagrate. —  murderati
• They deflagrate when sprinkled on fused nitre, forming carbonate of potash. —  A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
• 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. —  The Story of Electricity
• 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. —  Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881
• 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. —  Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise

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