Into a deflagrating spoon place a bit of potassium, set this on fire by holding it in the spoon in the flame of a spirit-lamp, and then rapidly plunge the burning metal into a bottle of oxygen.
If some phosphorus is placed in a deflagrating spoon, and exposed to the action of bromine vapour, it takes fire spontaneously.
A brilliant ignition occurs in the deflagrating spoon for a few seconds, and there is little or no smoke in the jar.
We shall have occasion to speak of it in another place, and shall only observe here, that its Nitrous character is by no means ambiguous: its deflagrating on live coals convinced Mr. Homberg of its being a true Nitre.
If equal parts of nitre and Antimony be mixed together, and the mixture exposed to the action of fire, a violent detonation ensues; the nitre deflagrating consumes the sulphur of the Antimony, and even a part of its phlogiston.
Selenic acid may be obtained in solution by deflagrating selenium or a selenite with potassic nitrate.
Put into a deflagrating spoon about four grains of phosphorus, and let it down into a bottle of chlorine, when the phosphorus will ignite instantaneously.
To introduce substances into gases, a deflagrating spoon is required.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deflagrating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
