Usage examples (5)

• 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...
• They deflagrate when sprinkled on fused nitre, forming carbonate of potash.
• This week's Word of the Week is actually two words - conflagrate and deflagrate.
• In making this test the student must remember that sulphur and, in fact, all oxidisable bodies similarly deflagrate, but it is only in the case of carbon compounds that...