What's the difference between deflagration and detonation?

Deflagration


Definition:

  • (n.) A burning up; conflagration.
  • (n.) The act or process of deflagrating.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We studied the electrophysiological effects of non-deflagrating anodic shocks of 2 joules on preparations of sheep ventricular myocardium and Purkinje's fibers.
  • (2) Synthethic glucocorticosteroids (fludrocortisone acetate, fluocinolone acetate, flumethasone pivalate, triamcinolone acetonide and dexamethasone acetate) were determined on the basis of their fluoride content, when deflagrated after Schöniger, in three ways: by potentiometric titration or by direct potential measurement of ion-selective fluoride electrode or by spectrophotometry with lanthanum alizarin complexan.
  • (3) Therefore, by simply reading these electrical parameters, it is possible to know the main stages of the fulguration phenomenon for impulses situated around the deflagration threshold.
  • (4) Deflagrating shocks of 90 Joules, with a short development time (non-self-inductive circuit) can lead to perforation of the myocardium in both the right and left ventricles.
  • (5) Therefore the law-enforcement agency supposed an explosion or deflagration of gasoline vapour.
  • (6) Because the explosive is of low power, later shots in the round may fail to detonate but deflagrate instead.

Detonation


Definition:

  • (n.) An explosion or sudden report made by the instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances' as, the detonation of gun cotton.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Documentation referring to experiments testing a two-point detonation design are part of the evidence of nuclear weaponisation gathered by the IAEA and presented to Iran for its response.
  • (2) Mills said the operators' maps, which he copied, showed the mark was to be the site of a detonation.
  • (3) He believed that, even if Monis was paralysed, the explosive may have been connected to a “dead man’s switch” which would automatically detonate the bomb if the operator becomes incapacitated.
  • (4) A few seconds later there was a bang from the side of the Peugeot, as a small bomb stuck on to the window detonated, killing one of the men inside.
  • (5) It was wired with a mobile phone, most likely to act as a timer to detonate the device.
  • (6) Attaullah Khyogani, the spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar, said another seven people were injured in the attack, which began when a suicide bomber detonated explosives outside the consulate and ended with a gun battle between Afghan security forces and the militants.
  • (7) Visiting journalists were briefed by security officers on the latest attacks: five IEDs detonated or exploded in 48 hours; a car bomb discovered and detonated; and "a rash" of grenade attacks.
  • (8) A quick conversation was had about the potential for him to be drawing us into that stronghold and then detonating [a bomb] or killing the hostages or police as they entered.” The cafe manager, Tori Johnson, was executed by Monis 10 minutes later, prompting police to storm the cafe.
  • (9) That followed Pyongyang's snubbing of Beijing's wishes when it conducted a missile test in late 2012, followed by the underground detonation of a nuclear device last spring.
  • (10) In contrast, he says, a detonator could be built in a year, maybe less.
  • (11) News of the kidnapping came as Syria's state TV reported that a suicide attacker detonated his explosive vest in an unspecified government institution in Damascus, killing four and wounding 17.
  • (12) He also built mobile phone "detonators" that he supplied to undercover FBI agents posing as al-Qaida terrorists and expressed his pleasure when told him they had been used to kill American soldiers in Iraq.
  • (13) At least two people – a woman, identified by police as Abaaoud’s cousin, Hasna Aitboulahcen, who apparently blew herself up by detonating an explosive vest, and a man hit by multiple gunshots and a grenade – were known to have died in the seven-hour assault on the rundown apartment block .
  • (14) Refrain from detonating your little bomb,” one of the generals told the commander in charge of the test.
  • (15) In immediate terms, the detonation appears to have destroyed what remained of the six-party talks – the process whereby the US, South Korea, Japan, Russia and China had sought jointly to induce Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear programme.
  • (16) Bombs containing B. anthracis spores were detonated on Gruinard island in 1942 and 1943 as a part of a British research programme set up in response to fears that the Germans were developing biological weapons.
  • (17) For Islamuh Ahmad, an elderly resident of Shadel Bazar – about two miles from the blast site – the Moab detonation meant that he could come home.
  • (18) PETN is used legally by the military and in industries such as mining, where it is used in detonation fuses.
  • (19) Mindblowing doesn't begin to cover it – Klangband detonated a thermonuclear device in my consciousness.
  • (20) Asiri is believed to have built the device his brother used in an abortive assassination attempt on Saudi Arabia's deputy interior minister and the underwear bomb a Nigerian man tried to detonate over the US in 2009.