Detonation vs Conflagration - What's the difference?
detonation | conflagration |
An explosion or sudden report made by the near-instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances as, the detonation of gun cotton. Specifically, combustion that spreads supersonically via shock compression.
Engine knocking, an improper combustion in internal combustion engines
A large fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning.
(figuratively) A large-scale conflict.
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As nouns the difference between detonation and conflagration
is that detonation is an explosion or sudden report made by the near-instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances as, the detonation of gun cotton. Specifically, combustion that spreads supersonically via shock compression while conflagration is (A large, ferocious, and destructive fire)A large fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning.detonation
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* (with respect to speed of propagation ): deflagrationHypernyms
* combustionAnagrams
* * English words suffixed with -ationconflagration
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(wikipedia conflagration)Noun
(en noun)- It took sixty firefighters to put out the conflagration .
- This was well brought out in the skillfully conducted campaigns by the various governments in appealing to the masses with their characteristic suggestible subconsciousness, stirring to the very depths the reflex consciousness of gregarious man by all sorts of direct and indirect suggestions of fear of attacks and patriotic reactions of self-defence against such attacks until the evil genie of self-preservation and fear became loose, resulting in a sweeping conflagration of a war of nations with all the horror of diseases, mutilation, and extermination of millions of human lives, over seventeen and a half millions, according to latest accounts, having perished in this world-massacre of the human race.
