deflagrations

Noun

deflagration (countable and uncountable, plural deflagrations)

1. The act of deflagrating; an intense fire; a conflagration or explosion. Specifically, combustion that spreads subsonically via thermal conduction.
   • If, for example, the mixture of oxygen and hydrogen was twenty volumes, and three volumes of oxygen remained after the deflagration, the mixture consisted of six volumes of hydrogen and six volumes of oxygen.1849, Heinrich Rose, A Practical Treatise of Chemical Analysis