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Definition of Combusts
1. combust [v] - See also: combust
Lexicographical Neighbors of Combusts
Literary usage of Combusts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wilson's Photographic Magazine (1912)
"They observed that a mixture of, for instance, i part magnesium and 3 parts
permanganate' of potassium, which combusts with an explosion, has a smaller ..."
2. Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and by Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862)
"... his baptism ; and from this do I compute or calculate my nativity, not reckoning
those horce combusts and odd days, or esteeming myself anything, ..."
3. A History of the Ancient Working People: A History of the Ancient Working by Cyrenus Osborne Ward (1900)
"... combusts struck Damascus witb a withering blight. Modern research likewise
discloses much that is valuable on ancient India in literature. ..."
4. Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia by Andrew Lee Dyke (1920)
"(1) the gasoline engine, also called an **internal combustion type of engine in
which the fuel combusts inside of the engine, between cylinder head and ..."
5. The Methods of the Chemists of the United States Steel Corporation for the by United States Steel Corporation Chemists' Committee, United States Steel Corporation (1920)
"11 « here considered, carbon is determined by the direct In aH ferrous her
con^ ^ ^ ^ ^^ ^ DETERMINATION OF CARBON. combusts me rf. ..."
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