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Examples of deflagrate
deflagrate
It is designed to deflagrate, or burn, to produce high pressure gases.
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Nitroglycerin and any dilutents can certainly deflagrate, i.e. burn.
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It is possible for them to deflagrate very quickly, producing an effect similar to a detonation.
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Low explosives deflagrate at subsonic speeds, whereas high explosives detonate, producing a supersonic wave.
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- Cause to burn rapidly and with great intensity; "care must be exercised when this substance is to be deflagrated"
- Burn with great heat and intense light; "the powder deflagrated"
- Deflagration (Lat: de + flagrare, "to burn down") is a technical term describing subsonic combustion that usually propagates through thermal conductivity (hot burning material heats the next layer of cold material and ignites it). ...
