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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..

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

Blaze :: Blaze (n.) A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame.

Fire :: Fire (n.) The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.

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.

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. i.) To burn with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; also, to snap and crackle with slight explosions when heated, as salt..

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

Smoulder :: Smoulder (v. i.) To burn and smoke without flame; to waste away by a slow and supressed combustion.

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

Calorimeter :: Calorimeter (n.) An apparatus for measuring the amount of heat contained in bodies or developed by some mechanical or chemical process, as friction, chemical combination, combustion, etc..

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

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

Caloric :: Caloric (n.) The principle of heat, or the agent to which the phenomena of heat and combustion were formerly ascribed; -- not now used in scientific nomenclature, but sometimes used as a general term for heat..

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

Calx :: Calx (n.) The substance which remains when a metal or mineral has been subjected to calcination or combustion by heat, and which is, or may be, reduced to a fine powder..

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

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..

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

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