Word Finder - inflames

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To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.

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To kindle or intensify (a feeling, as passion or appetite); to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat.

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to inflame desire

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To provoke (a person) to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.

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To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of.

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to inflame the eyes by overwork

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To exaggerate; to enlarge upon.

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To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed.

Titanium dichloride, TiC1 21 obtained by passing hydrogen over the trichloride at a dull red heat, is a very hygroscopic brown powder which inflames when exposed to air, and energetically decomposes water.

It readily inflames, burning with a blue smokeless flame, and producing water and carbon dioxide, with the evolution of great.

The term "spontaneous combustion" is used when a substance smoulders or inflames apparently without the intervention of any external heat or light; in such cases, as, for example, in heaps of cotton-waste soaked in oil, the oxidation has proceeded slowly, but steadily, for some time, until the heat evolved has raised the mass to the temperature of ignition.

But the connexion is clear, and hence it also explained the curious Gnostic myth mentioned above, namely that the i carnip (the light-maiden) by appearing to the archontes (cipxovrES), the lower powers of this world, inflames them to sexual lusts, in order to take from them that share of light which they have stolen from the upper world.

It is very heavy, its density being about 11; it inflames when heated in air and is not attacked by alkalis; it readily dissolves in nitric acid and aqua regia, but with difficulty in hydrochloric acid.

Many compounds containing hydrogen are readily decomposed by the gas; for example, a piece of paper dipped in turpentine inflames in an atmosphere of chlorine, producing hydrochloric acid and a copious deposit of soot; a lighted taper burns in chlorine with a dull smoky flame.

It is a very powerful oxidant; a mixture of potassium chlorate and sugar in about equal proportions spontaneously inflames when touched with a rod moistened with concentrated sulphuric acid, the chlorine peroxide liberated setting fire to the sugar, which goes on burning.

The concentrated solution is a powerful oxidizing agent; organic matter being oxidized so rapidly that it frequently inflames.

It crystallizes in colourless cubes, is deliquescent, and often inflames spontaneously on exposure to air.

It spontaneously inflames in air or oxygen; and when the gas is issuing from a jet into air the flame is greyish green, with a faintly luminous and yellow tip; the flame is probably one of the coldest known.

When strongly heated iron inflames in oxygen and in sulphur vapour; it also combines directly with the halogens.

It deliquesces and oxidizes on exposure, inflames in dry chlorine and is reduced to ammonia by zinc dust.

Moving the inflamed tendon further inflamed tendon further inflames the sheath, which tightens onto the tendon, causing pain.

The arrival of handsome river gypsy Johnny Depp further inflames passions.

It will only combine with hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst, but combines with many other elements directly; for example, phosphorus melts and then inflames, antimony burns in the vapour, and mercury when heated with iodine combines with it rapidly.

Histamine irritates and inflames the airways to produce sneezing and mucus production.

Allergic contact dermatitis (ACD) results when repeated exposure to an allergen (an allergy-causing substance) triggers an immune response that inflames the skin.