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Lamp :: Lamp (n.) A light-producing vessel, instrument or apparatus; especially, a vessel with a wick used for the combustion of oil or other inflammable liquid, for the purpose of producing artificial light..

Crock :: Crock (n.) The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut; also, coloring matter which rubs off from cloth..

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..

Theory :: Theory (n.) The philosophical explanation of phenomena, either physical or moral; as, Lavoisier's theory of combustion; Adam Smith's theory of moral sentiments..

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

Gaslight :: Gaslight (n.) The light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas.

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

Cineration :: Cineration (n.) The reducing of anything to ashes by combustion; cinefaction.

Pyrothonide :: Pyrothonide (n.) A kind of empyreumatic oil produced by the combustion of textures of hemp, linen, or cotton in a copper vessel, -- formerly used as a remedial agent..

Fire :: Fire (n.) Fuel in a state of combustion, as on a hearth, or in a stove or a furnace..

Spark :: Spark (n.) A small particle of fire or ignited substance which is emitted by a body in combustion.

Furnace :: Furnace (n.) An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc..

Soot :: Soot (n.) A black substance formed by combustion, or disengaged from fuel in the process of combustion, which rises in fine particles, and adheres to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke; strictly, the fine powder, consisting chiefly of carbon, which colors smoke, and which is the result of imperfect combustion. See Smoke..

Firework :: Firework (n.) A device for producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the combustion of materials that burn in some peculiar manner, as gunpowder, sulphur, metallic filings, and various salts. The most common feature of fireworks is a paper or pasteboard tube filled with the combustible material. A number of these tubes or cases are often combined so as to make, when kindled, a great variety of figures in fire, often variously colored. The skyrocke

Combustion :: Combustion (n.) The combination of a combustible with a supporter of combustion, producing heat, and sometimes both light and heat..

Stinker :: Stinkball (n.) A composition of substances which in combustion emit a suffocating odor; -- used formerly in naval warfare.

Combustion :: Combustion (n.) The state of burning.

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

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

Deflagrator :: Deflagrator (n.) A form of the voltaic battery having large plates, used for producing rapid and powerful combustion..

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