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deflagrating spoons

deflagrating spoons is the plural of deflagrating spoon.

Meaning of deflagrating spoon

Noun

deflagrating spoon (plural deflagrating spoons)

  1. A long-handled spoon with a cover, lowered into a glass vessel filled with a gas to demonstrate deflagration.
    • A piece of metal (sodium) of the size of a pea is placed in a deflagrating spoon, and heated in the blowpipe-flame to redness. Suddenly immersed into a jar containing half a pint of chlorine-gas, it burns with a bright yellow flame to chloride of sodium.1854, Albert James Bernays, Household chemistry; or, rudiments of the science applied to every-day life

Questions about deflagrating spoons

What is deflagrating spoons the plural of?
Deflagrating spoons is the plural of deflagrating spoon.

Words near deflagrating spoons in the dictionary

  1. deflagrate
  2. deflagrated
  3. deflagrates
  4. deflagrating
  5. deflagrating spoon
  6. deflagrating spoons
  7. deflagration
  8. deflagrations
  9. deflagrative
  10. deflagrator
  11. deflagrators

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