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from The Century Dictionary.

Combustible; having the quality of taking fire and burning up, as alcohol, oils, etc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

adjective (Chem.) Burning with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; hence, slightly explosive; liable to snap and crackle when heated, as salt.

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adjective chemistry, archaic Burning with a sudden and sparkling combustion; slightly explosive; liable to snap and crackle when heated, like salt.

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See deflagrate.

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But to returne to our Chymical Oyles, supposing that they were exactly pure; Yet I hope they would be, as the best spirit of Wine is, but the more inflamable and deflagrable.

The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject. Robert Boyle 1659

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hernesheir commented on the word deflagrable

An adjective you don't meet every day.

November 16, 2012