burner
(ˈbɜr nər)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a person or thing that burns.
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gas burner
(ˈgæsˌbæg)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a stove or the like that burns gas as a fuel.
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vesicant
(ˈvɛs ɪ kənt)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a chemical agent that causes burns and destruction of tissue.
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incendiary
(ɪnˈsɛn diˌɛr i)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a device containing napalm, thermite, or the like, that burns with an intense heat.
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specific impulse
(ˌspɛs ə fɪˈkeɪ ʃən)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a measure of how efficiently a rocket engine burns its fuel.
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antipyrotic
Webster Dictionary
good against burns or pyrosis
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burner
Webster Dictionary
one who, or that which, burns or sets fire to anything
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squib
(ɪb)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a firecracker broken in the middle so that it burns with a hissing noise but does not explode.
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antipyrotic
Webster Dictionary
anything of use in preventing or healing burns or pyrosis
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burning
Webster Dictionary
that burns; being on fire; excessively hot; fiery
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woodward
(ˈwʊd wərd)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
Robert Burns, 1917–79, U.S. chemist: Nobel prize 1965.
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dumfries
(a historic county in S Scotland.)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a burgh of Dumfries and Galloway in S Scotland: burial place of Robert Burns. 57,149.
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cannel coal
(ˈkæn l)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
an oily, compact coal that burns readily and brightly. Also called cannel.
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unguent
Webster Dictionary
a lubricant or salve for sores, burns, or the like; an ointment
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thermite
(ˈθɜr maɪt)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a mixture of aluminum and ferric oxide that burns at very high temperatures: used in welding, incendiaries, etc.
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skyrocket
Webster Dictionary
a rocket that ascends high and burns as it flies; a species of fireworks
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burn
Webster Dictionary
to combine energetically, with evolution of heat; as, copper burns in chlorine
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carbon monoxide
(ˈkɑr bəˌnaɪz)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a colorless, odorless, poisonous gas, CO, produced when carbon burns with insufficient air: used chiefly in organic synthesis and metallurgy.
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touch-paper
Webster Dictionary
paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, and the like
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squib
(ɪb)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a small firework, consisting of a tube or ball filled with powder, that burns with a hissing noise terminated usu. by a slight explosion.
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sulfa drug
(ˈsʌl fə)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
any of a group of drugs closely related in chemical structure to sulfanilamide, having a bacteriostatic effect: used in the treatment of various wounds, burns, and infections.
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carron oil
Webster Dictionary
a lotion of linseed oil and lime water, used as an application to burns and scalds; -- first used at the Carron iron works in Scotland
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caustic
Webster Dictionary
any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic
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light
Webster Dictionary
a firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or colored flame; as, a Bengal light
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magnesium
(ægˈni zi əm, -ʒəm, -ʃi əm)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a light, ductile, silver-white metallic element that burns with a dazzling light, used in alloys, fireworks, and flashbulbs.
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oil furnace
(oil burner, oil furnace)
Princeton's WordNet
a furnace that burns oil
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barnburner
(barnburner)
Princeton's WordNet
someone who burns down a barn
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oil burner
(oil burner, oil furnace)
Princeton's WordNet
a furnace that burns oil
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gas furnace
(gas furnace)
Princeton's WordNet
a furnace that burns gas
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aloe vera
(ˈvɛr ə, ˈvɪər ə)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
any aloe of the species Aloe vera, the fleshy leaves of which yield a juice used as an emollient ingredient of skin lotions and for treating burns.
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