(n.) An apparatus in which coal gas, hydrogen, or air is passed through or over a volatile hydrocarbon, in order to confer or increase illuminating power.
Example Sentences:
(1) The case of a 17 year old abuser of butane aerosols who developed fulminant hepatic failure after taking a proprietary engine or carburetor cleaner is described.
(2) During 13 years of work renovating carburetors he was heavily exposed to trichloromethane.
(3) We believe that an active education campaign and the addition of warning labels to car engine compartments would make an impact in decreasing the incidence of carburetor burns.
(4) We have identified carburetor burns as a significant cause of preventable morbidity, both from long-term functional and cosmetic standpoints.
(5) Burns as a result of priming carburetors with gasoline resulted in 4% of all burn admissions to the Oregon Burn Center from 1980-1982.
(6) One patient developed full-thickness skin loss following gasoline immersion, and another developed severe systemic complications following contact with a carburetor cleaning solvent.
(7) Seventy-nine persons who had sustained automobile engine carburetor- and radiator-related burns were admitted to Grady Memorial Hospital Burn Unit between June 1, 1984 and September 30, 1990.
(8) Professional and public awareness of the risk of serious gasoline burns incurred during carburetor priming should decrease its incidence.
(9) A 17-year-old boy was brought to the emergency department after he inhaled fumes from a rag soaked with a carburetor cleaner containing toluene, methylene chloride, and methanol.
(10) The epidemiology of carburetor burns and our experience are described.
(11) Forty patients with carburetor-priming flame burns had a mean age of 31.5 years, a mean burn size of 13.4% total body surface area, and a mean length of stay of 13.8 days.
Ignition
Definition:
(n.) The act of igniting, kindling, or setting on fire.
(n.) The state of being ignited or kindled.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hair ignited in room air only when struck repeatedly at high energy, but easily ignited in 100% oxygen.
(2) Eight of the nine best descriptive studies indicated that alcohol exposure was more likely among those who died in fires ignited by cigarettes than those attributable to other causes.
(3) And in a broader sense, the sort of Conservatives who think intelligently and strategically – and there are more of them than you think – fret that a bearded 66-year-old socialist has ignited political debate in a way that absolutely nobody in the mainstream predicted.
(4) Twombly's work sold for millions and ignited the passions of followers.
(5) The Texas City Disaster on 16 April 1947 killed almost 600 people, when a fire ignited a huge quantity of ammonium nitrate on a ship moored in the Galveston Bay port, beginning a chain of explosions and fires.
(6) PA also spoke to Austin Yuill, whoa chef at the art school, who said he believed the blaze started when a spark ignited foam in the building's basement.
(7) But then a mismanaged clean-up in an underground garbage dump ignited a seam of anthracite eight miles long that proved impossible to extinguish.
(8) Police have refused to speculate whether the blast was caused by anhydrous ammonia igniting in the heat of the fire, or if there could be a criminal connection.
(9) But the spacecraft's rocket boosters failed to ignite after it had been launched into a parking orbit around the Earth in November.
(10) The sample is ignited in a closed atmosphere of oxygen and, after a series of redox reactions, the iodine is determined spectrophotometrically as the triiodide ion.
(11) Changes in lattice parameters (principally in the a-axis dimensions) and in the character of the IR absorption bands are correlated with weight losses at pyrolysis temperatures of 100 degrees to 400 degrees C and with effect of rehydration and reignition of previously ignited samples.
(12) Photograph: supplied Nauru: a powder keg waiting to ignite All the signs suggest a moment of crisis is approaching on Nauru .
(13) When I speak to Irish people, they’re very worried about the Troubles being kind of re-ignited.
(14) This pattern is not unique to London: it is evident in past riots throughout the US, from Cincinnati to Crown Heights in New York to the Los Angeles riots ignited by the Rodney King beating.
(15) Ukip leaflets gloat: “Labour will keep you in.” In Westminster I hear some Labour MPs secretly hoping a Stoke loss would ignite a “Corbyn must go” move.
(16) It could not be any clearer that support for Mladic and his apotheosis in the media are an unfortunate endorsement of Dimitrijevic's assessment that survivors of the atrocities of the 1992-1995 war have no reason to think that Serbian culture has abandoned the ideology that ignited aggressions.
(17) Burns resulting from clothing ignition, both daywear and nightwear, have decreased slightly in recent years.
(18) We report a case of severe thermal injury to the conducting airways due to either inhalational injury or to intratracheal ignition of the ether vehicle used in free-basing cocaine resulting in severe reactive airways disease and tracheal stenosis requiring reconstructive surgery.
(19) Last year, General Motors paid $900m to end an investigation into an ignition switch defect, which cut engines and disabled systems such as power steering and airbags, linked to 124 deaths.
(20) The presented cases emphasize the hazard of serving ignited food and drinks without taking appropriate safety measures.