Deflagration
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| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Automotive |
| Location | Charlotte, NC, United States |
| Introduction | |ˌdefləˈgrā sh ən| noun the action of heating a substance until it burns away rapidly. • technical combustion that propagates through a gas or across the surface of an explosive at subsonic speeds, driven by the transfer of heat. Compare with detonation . ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from Latin deflagratio(n-), from the verb deflagrare (see deflagrate ). |