Definition of Combusting

1. Verb. (present participle of combust) ¹

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Definition of Combusting

1. combust [v] - See also: combust

Lexicographical Neighbors of Combusting

combretum family
combrous
combs
combtooth blenny
comburant
comburent
combust
combusted
combuster
combustibility
combustible
combustible material
combustibleness
combustibles
combustibly
combusting (current term)
combustion
combustion air
combustion analysis
combustion chamber
combustion chambers
combustion efficiency
combustion engine
combustion equivalent
combustion gases
combustion reaction
combustionary
combustions
combustious
combustive

Literary usage of Combusting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Medical Implications of Nuclear War by Frederic Solomon (1986)
"... the body (hyperthermia) due to extended exposure to high-temperature air and to radiant energy from combusting materials (Tables 1 and 5 and Figure 20). ..."

2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1872)
"If another Donati would but exhibit itself we should doubtless soon have grounds for fairly judging whether a comet be an accumulation of hot combusting ..."

3. The Annual Registeredited by Edmund Burke edited by Edmund Burke (1826)
"... xiv 427 Fiorella, gen. xli 287] Fioti, ab. death of, by fright, xii 72] Fire spontaneously kindled. &« combusting .... kindled spontaneously in the ..."

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