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What does deflagrate mean?

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Verb
  1. (physics) To burn with intense light and heat.
    1. Specifically, to combust subsonically through thermal conduction.
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They deflagrate like the chlorates when heated with combustibles.
Another portion of the residue should deflagrate when saturated with an alkali and projected upon live coals.
The matches tipped with it deflagrate with a snapping noise.
They deflagrate when sprinkled on fused nitre, forming carbonate of potash.
After an incident on November 26, 1984, at a facility in Japan, it was determined that pure germane can deflagrate when ignited with a spark in the absence of air, decomposing exothermically to germanium metal and hydrogen.
Like the nitrates, they deflagrate with inflammable substances, but with greater facility and violence.

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