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flash burns

flash burns is the plural of flash burn.

Meaning of flash burn

Noun

flash burn (countable and uncountable, plural flash burns)

  1. A skin injury caused by brief, intense exposure to heat or light.
    • The greatest number of radiation injuries was probably due to the ultra-violet rays which have a wave length slightly shorter than visible light and which caused flash burn comparable to severe sunburn.1946, The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Manhattan Engineer District, page 20

Questions about flash burns

What is flash burns the plural of?
Flash burns is the plural of flash burn.

Words near flash burns in the dictionary

  1. flash boilers
  2. flash bomb
  3. flash burn
  4. flash burner
  5. flash burners
  6. flash burns
  7. flash card
  8. flash cards
  9. flash cartridge
  10. flash crash
  11. flash crowd

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