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Burning :: Burning (a.) Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful; as, burning zeal..

Ustorious :: Ustorious (a.) Having the quality of burning.

Pickle :: Pickle (v. t.) A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their color..

Sunburning :: Sun-burner (n.) A circle or cluster of gas-burners for lighting and ventilating public buildings.

Calcination :: Calcination (n.) The act or process of disintegrating a substance, or rendering it friable by the action of heat, esp. by the expulsion of some volatile matter, as when carbonic and acid is expelled from carbonate of calcium in the burning of limestone in order to make lime..

Calid :: Calid (a.) Hot; burning; ardent.

Bunsen''s Battery :: Bunsen's battery () Alt. of Bunsen's burne.

Burn :: Burn (v. t.) To apply a cautery to; to cauterize.

Incombustible :: Incombustible (a.) Not combustible; not capable of being burned, decomposed, or consumed by fire; uninflammable; as, asbestus is an incombustible substance; carbon dioxide is an incombustible gas..

Tip :: Tip (n.) An end piece or part; a piece, as a cap, nozzle, ferrule, or point, applied to the extreme end of anything; as, a tip for an umbrella, a shoe, a gas burner, etc..

Magnesia :: Magnesia (n.) A light earthy white substance, consisting of magnesium oxide, and obtained by heating magnesium hydrate or carbonate, or by burning magnesium. It has a slightly alkaline reaction, and is used in medicine as a mild antacid laxative. See Magnesium..

Tantalum :: Tantalum (n.) A rare nonmetallic element found in certain minerals, as tantalite, samarskite, and fergusonite, and isolated as a dark powder which becomes steel-gray by burnishing. Symbol Ta. Atomic weight 182.0. Formerly called also tantalium..

Holocaust :: Holocaust (n.) A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations..

Flare :: Flare (v. i.) To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares..

Pyrography :: Pyrography (n.) A process of printing, ornamenting, or carving, by burning with heated instruments..

Blue :: Blue (superl.) Pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame; hence, of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air was blue with oaths..

Umber :: Umber (n.) A brown or reddish pigment used in both oil and water colors, obtained from certain natural clays variously colored by the oxides of iron and manganese. It is commonly heated or burned before being used, and is then called burnt umber; when not heated, it is called raw umber. See Burnt umber, below..

Sear :: Sear (a.) To burn (the surface of) to dryness and hardness; to cauterize; to expose to a degree of heat such as changes the color or the hardness and texture of the surface; to scorch; to make callous; as, to sear the skin or flesh. Also used figuratively..

Brazier :: Brazier (n.) A pan for holding burning coals.

Char :: Char (n.) To reduce to coal or carbon by exposure to heat; to reduce to charcoal; to burn to a cinder.

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