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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
deflagration/-ˈreɪʃ(ə)n/

▶noun Chemistry the action of heating a substance until it burns away rapidly.

– derivatives
deflagrate verb,
deflagrator noun.

– origin C17: from L. deflagratio(n-), from deflagrare ‘burn up’, from de- ‘away, thoroughly’ + flagrare ‘to burn’.

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