Definition of Combusts

1. Verb. (third-person singular of combust) ¹

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Definition of Combusts

1. combust [v] - See also: combust

Lexicographical Neighbors of Combusts

combustion air
combustion analysis
combustion chamber
combustion chambers
combustion efficiency
combustion engine
combustion equivalent
combustion gases
combustion reaction
combustionary
combustions
combustious
combustive
combustor
combustors
combusts (current term)
come-all-you
come-around
come-at-able
come-hither
come-hithers
come-outer
come-over
come-to-Jesus
come a cropper
come a long way
come about

Literary usage of Combusts

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Wilson's Photographic Magazine (1912)
"They observed that a mixture of, for instance, i part magnesium and 3 parts permanganate' of potassium, which combusts with an explosion, has a smaller ..."

2. Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and by Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862)
"... his baptism ; and from this do I compute or calculate my nativity, not reckoning those horce combusts and odd days, or esteeming myself anything, ..."

3. A History of the Ancient Working People: A History of the Ancient Working by Cyrenus Osborne Ward (1900)
"... combusts struck Damascus witb a withering blight. Modern research likewise discloses much that is valuable on ancient India in literature. ..."

4. Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia by Andrew Lee Dyke (1920)
"(1) the gasoline engine, also called an **internal combustion type of engine in which the fuel combusts inside of the engine, between cylinder head and ..."

5. The Methods of the Chemists of the United States Steel Corporation for the by United States Steel Corporation Chemists' Committee, United States Steel Corporation (1920)
"11 « here considered, carbon is determined by the direct In aH ferrous her con^ ^ ^ ^ ^^ ^ DETERMINATION OF CARBON. combusts me rf. ..."

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