cigarette burning
cigarette burning
[′sig·ə‚ret ¦bərn·iŋ] (chemistry)
In rocket propellants, black powder, gasless delay elements, and pyrotechnic candles, the type of burning induced in a solid grain by permitting burning on one end only, so that the burning progresses in the direction of the longitudinal axis.
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