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Torch :: Torch (n.) A light or luminary formed of some combustible substance, as of resinous wood; a large candle or flambeau, or a lamp giving a large, flaring 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..

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..

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..

Midfeather :: Midfeather (n.) A vertical water space in a fire box or combustion chamber.

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

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

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..

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..

Deflector :: Deflector (n.) That which deflects, as a diaphragm in a furnace, or a cone in a lamp (to deflect and mingle air and gases and help combustion)..

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..

Burnable :: Burnable (a.) Combustible.

Coal :: Coal (n.) A black, or brownish black, solid, combustible substance, dug from beds or veins in the earth to be used for fuel, and consisting, like charcoal, mainly of carbon, but more compact, and often affording, when heated, a large amount of volatile matter..

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..

Lucifer :: Lucifer (n.) A match made of a sliver of wood tipped with a combustible substance, and ignited by friction; -- called also lucifer match, and locofoco. See Locofoco..

Flame :: Flame (n.) To burn with a flame or blaze; to burn as gas emitted from bodies in combustion; to blaze.

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

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

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

Amadou :: Amadou (n.) A spongy, combustible substance, prepared from fungus (Boletus and Polyporus) which grows on old trees; German tinder; punk. It has been employed as a styptic by surgeons, but its common use is as tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking it in a strong solution of niter..

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