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• To burn with sudden and startling combustion. Describes explosion of black powder, as opposed to the more rapid detonation of dynamite.
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  Deflagration. (n.d.). Bureau of Reclamation Glossary. Retrieved March 20, 2023, from website: http://www.expertglossary.com/definition/deflagration.

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  Deflagration. www.usbr.gov. Bureau of Reclamation Glossary. Bureau of Reclamation. http://www.expertglossary.com/definition/deflagration (accessed: March 20, 2023).

  Modern Language Association (MLA)

  "Deflagration." Bureau of Reclamation Glossary. Bureau of Reclamation. 20 March. 2023 http://www.expertglossary.com/definition/deflagration.

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