Word Finder - flame

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The visible part of fire; a stream of burning vapour or gas, emitting light and heat.

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A romantic partner or lover in a usually short-lived but passionate affair.

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Intentionally insulting criticism or remark meant to incite anger.

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A brilliant reddish orange-gold fiery colour.

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The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the curl.

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The cello has a two-piece back with a beautiful narrow flame.

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Burning zeal, passion, imagination, excitement, or anger.

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To produce flames; to burn with a flame or blaze.

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To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardour.

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To post a destructively critical or abusive message (to somebody).

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I flamed him for spamming in my favourite newsgroup.

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Of a brilliant reddish orange-gold colour, like that of a flame.

His red shock of hair stood up like a flame as he glared down at her.

The warmth grew into a flame and she tossed her head defiantly.

It burns with a pale blue flame to form carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide.

The blush was developing into a burning flame.

Samantha didn't take her eyes off the flame, That's not necessarily true.

The flame jumps down at every tick.

Flame collectors blow out in high winds, whilst water-droppers are apt to get frozen in winter.

It burns with a pale blue flame, forming sulphur dioxide and water.

One sort of imamba, named by the natives " indhlondhlo," is crested, and its body is of a bright flame colour.

Rarely the nephridium does not communicate with the coelom; in such cases the nephridium ends in a single cell, like the "flame cell" of a Platyhelminth worm, in which there is a lumen blocked at the coelomic end by a tuft of fine cilia projecting into the lumen.

In his Sylva sylvarum (1627), Francis Bacon states that " the original concretion of bitumen is a mixture of a fiery and watery substance," and observes that flame " attracts " the naphtha of Babylon " afar off."

It is sufficient to look at wire gauze backed by the sky or by a flame, through a piece of blackened cardboard, pierced by a needle and held close to the eye.

This mixture burns with a green flame forming boron trioxide; whilst boron is deposited on passing the gas mixture through a hot tube, or on depressing a cold surface in the gas flame.

This apparatus has an oil-cup consisting of a cylindrical brass or gunmetal vessel, the cover of which is provided with three rectangular holes which may be closed and opened by means of a perforated slide moving in grooves; the movement of the slide causes a small oscillating colzaor rape-oil lamp to be tilted so that the flame (of specified size) is brought just below the surface of the lid.

A mixture of carbon bisulphide vapour and nitric oxide burns with a very intense blue-coloured flame, which is very rich in the violet or actinic rays.

Heat the substance on a piece of charcoal in the reducing flame of the blowpipe.

Feature brick fireplace and tiled hearth and fitted with a living flame gas fire.

Cadmium salts can be recognized by the brown incrustation which is formed when they are heated on charcoal in the oxidizing flame of the blowpipe; and also by the yellow precipitate formed when sulphuretted hydrogen is passed though their acidified solutions.

The flame coloration may give information as to which elements are present.

If the worldpowers were hard as flint in their dealings with Israel, the people of God were steeled to such moral endurance that each clash of their successive onsets kindled some new flame of devotion.

Like that of Natal the Transvaal coal burns with a clear flame and leaves little ash.

It burns with a white flame and is soluble in water.

He further expressed the belief that the dark lines D of the solar spectrum coincide with the bright lines of the sodium flame.

Hold a small portion of the substance moistened with hydrochloric acid on a clean platinum wire in the fusion zone' of the Bunsen burner, and note any colour imparted to the flame.

Potassium gives a blue-violet flame which may be masked by the colorations due to sodium, calcium and other elements.

Beilstein determines their presence by heating the substance with pure copper oxide on a platinum wire in the Bunsen flame; a green coloration is observed if halogens be present.

If the gas be mixed with the vapour of carbon disulphide, the mixture burns with a vivid lavender-coloured flame Nitric oxide is soluble in solutions of ferrous salts, a dark brown solution being formed, which is readily decomposed by heat, with evolution of nitric oxide.

The dressed ore is introduced through a "hopper" at the top, and exposed to a moderate oxidizing flame until a certain proportion of ore is oxidized, openings at the side enabling the workmen to stir up the ore so as to constantly renew the surface exposed to the air.

When mixed with sodium carbonate and heated on charcoal in the reducing flame lead salts yield malleable globules of metal and a yellow oxide-ring.

Analysis.-A borax bead dissolves uranium oxides in the reducing flame with a green, in the oxidizing flame with a yellow, colour.

The fractured edge is smoothed by the impact of a gas flame.

In the oxyhydrogen flame silver boils, forming a blue vapour, while platinum volatilizes slowly, and osmium, though infusible, very readily.

The charging operation being completed, the temperature is raised, and as a consequence an evolution of carbon monoxide soon begins, and becomes visible by the gas bursting out into the characteristic blue flame.

The oxide is fusible only in the oxy-hydrogen flame.

In the last case it becomes coated with a greyish-black layer of an oxide (dioxide (?)), at a red heat the layer consists of the trioxide (B1203), and is yellow or green in the case of pure bismuth, and violet or blue if impure; at a bright red heat it burns with a bluish flame to the trioxide.

The flame then appears toothed as shown.

Then the middle point is a loop, and the middle flame is only slightly affected, while the other two, now being at nodes, vibrate strongly.

Such a flame may jump down, for instance, to each tick of a neighbouring clock.

He " received the flame as it were embracing it.

Below them was a vast space, at the bottom of which was a black sea with rolling billows, through which little tongues of flame constantly shot up.

At the same instant he was dazzled by a great flash of flame, and immediately a deafening roar, crackling, and whistling made his ears tingle.

Cupping his hands around the flame, he sucked life into the cigarette and then shook the flame from the match before tossing it into an ashtray.

It burns with a pale-blue flame forming silicon fluoride, silicofluoric acid and silicic acid.

This class of c coal burns with a very small amount of flame, produc ing intense local heat and no smoke.

The flame may be 16 in.

It burns with a characteristic pale blue flame to form carbon dioxide.

Not a flame but can guys really carry off tote bags?

Once more something whistled, but this time quite close, swooping downwards like a little bird; a flame flashed in the middle of the street, something exploded, and the street was shrouded in smoke.

Tongues of flame here and there broke through that cloud.

Suddenly four wicked red tongues of flame stabbed the sky.