The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
deflagrating spoon — noun A long handled spoon with a cover, lowered into a glass vessel filled with a gas to demonstrate deflagration. A piece of metal (sodium) of the size of a pea is placed in a deflagrating spoon, and heated in the blowpipe flame to redness.… … Wiktionary
deflagrating — def·la·grate || deflÉ™greɪt v. burn violently, catch fire suddenly; cause to catch on fire suddenly … English contemporary dictionary
deflagrating — … Useful english dictionary
deflagrating spoon — noun or deflagration spoon : a spoon with a long vertical handle used in deflagration experiments … Useful english dictionary
deflagrating-spoon — defˈlagrating spoon noun A cup with a long vertical shank for handling chemicals that deflagrate • • • Main Entry: ↑deflagrate … Useful english dictionary
explosive — explosively, adv. explosiveness, n. /ik sploh siv/, adj. 1. tending or serving to explode: an explosive temper; Nitroglycerin is an explosive substance. 2. pertaining to or of the nature of an explosion: explosive violence. 3. likely to lead to… … Universalium
Burn rate (chemistry) — In chemistry, the burn rate is a measure of the linear combustion rate of a compound or substance such as a candle or a propellant. The industry recognized nomenclatures are mm/s or in/s for millimeters per second or inches per second… … Wikipedia
deflagration — noun The act of deflagrating; an intense fire; a conflagration or explosion. Specifically, combustion that spreads subsonically via thermal conduction. If, for example, the mixture of oxygen and hydrogen was twenty volumes, and three volumes of… … Wiktionary
acoumbo — Black Black (bl[a^]k), a. [OE. blak, AS. bl[ae]c; akin to Icel. blakkr dark, swarthy, Sw. bl[ a]ck ink, Dan. bl[ae]k, OHG. blach, LG. & D. blaken to burn with a black smoke. Not akin to AS. bl[=a]c, E. bleak pallid. [root]98.] 1. Destitute of… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Black — (bl[a^]k), a. [OE. blak, AS. bl[ae]c; akin to Icel. blakkr dark, swarthy, Sw. bl[ a]ck ink, Dan. bl[ae]k, OHG. blach, LG. & D. blaken to burn with a black smoke. Not akin to AS. bl[=a]c, E. bleak pallid. [root]98.] 1. Destitute of light, or… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
