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Chimney :: Chimney (n.) A tube usually of glass, placed around a flame, as of a lamp, to create a draft, and promote combustion..

Burnable :: Burnable (a.) Combustible.

Fume :: Fume (n.) To smoke; to throw off fumes, as in combustion or chemical action; to rise up, as vapor..

Combustibility :: Combustibility (n.) The quality of being combustible.

Apyrous :: Apyrous (a.) Incombustible; capable of sustaining a strong heat without alteration of form or properties.

Carbon :: Carbon (n.) An elementary substance, not metallic in its nature, which is present in all organic compounds. Atomic weight 11.97. Symbol C. it is combustible, and forms the base of lampblack and charcoal, and enters largely into mineral coals. In its pure crystallized state it constitutes the diamond, the hardest of known substances, occuring in monometric crystals like the octahedron, etc. Another modification is graphite, or blacklead, and in this it is soft, and occurs in hexagonal prisms or t

Accelerograph :: Accelerograph (n.) An apparatus for studying the combustion of powder in guns, etc..

Cresset :: Cresset (n.) An open frame or basket of iron, filled with combustible material, to be burned as a beacon; an open lamp or firrepan carried on a pole in nocturnal processions..

Fireball :: Fireball (n.) A ball filled with powder or other combustibles, intended to be thrown among enemies, and to injure by explosion; also, to set fire to their works and light them up, so that movements may be seen..

Combust :: Combust (a.) Burnt; consumed.

Combustion :: Combustion (n.) Violent agitation; confusion; tumult.

Octylene :: Octylene (n.) Any one of a series of metameric hydrocarbons (C8H16) of the ethylene series. In general they are combustible, colorless liquids..

Detonation :: Detonation (n.) An explosion or sudden report made by the instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances' as, the detonation of gun cotton..

Ignite :: Ignite (v. t.) To subject to the action of intense heat; to heat strongly; -- often said of incombustible or infusible substances; as, to ignite iron or platinum..

Deflagrate :: Deflagrate (v. t.) To cause to burn with sudden and sparkling combustion, as by the action of intense heat; to burn or vaporize suddenly; as, to deflagrate refractory metals in the oxyhydrogen flame..

Downcome :: Downcome (n.) A pipe for leading combustible gases downward from the top of the blast furnace to the hot-blast stoves, boilers, etc., where they are burned..

Fuel :: Fuel (n.) Any matter used to produce heat by burning; that which feeds fire; combustible matter used for fires, as wood, coal, peat, etc..

Combustible :: Combustible (n.) A substance that may be set on fire, or which is liable to take fire and burn..

Ashes :: Ashes (n. pl.) The earthy or mineral particles of combustible substances remaining after combustion, as of wood or coal..

Smudge :: Smudge (n.) A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, or the like, in order, by the thick smoke, to keep off mosquitoes or other insects..

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