deflagration

12 letters · noun · scores 3,800 in SpellHuntr

noun

combustion that propagates through a gas or along the surface of an explosive at a rapid rate driven by the transfer of heat

Deflagration in a sentence

Black powder . . . It produces a relatively fast burn or deflagration rather than a detonation and is classified as "low explosive".

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