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| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A. Any fossil combustible substance b. An intimate mixture of aluminum powder and powdered iron oxide that when caused to react by strong heating emits a great deal of heat and yields alumina and a white-hot molten mass of metallic iro. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Although the reactants are stable at room temperature, when they are exposed to sufficient heat to ignite, they burn with an extremely intense exothermic reaction. The products emerge as liquids due to the high temperatures reached. Since thermite reactions require no external source of oxygen to burn, they cannot be smothered and will ignite in any environment.
Thermite reactions have many uses. Thermite grenades and bombs are used in combat as incendiary devices, able to burn through heavy armor or other fireproof barriers. Thermite can also be used for quickly cutting or welding metal without requiring complex or heavy equipment. The reaction has also been used to purify the ores of some metals, e.g. uranium.
The most common thermite reaction is that of iron oxide, which exceeds 3000°C:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Thermite."
Crosswords: THERMITE |
| Specialty definitions using "THERMITE": Barium release, BOMB LOADER ♦ CORROSION-CONTROL FITTER ♦ ferromolybdenum ♦ Goldschmidt's process ♦ Luser Attitude Re-adjustment Tool. (references) |
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| "THERMITE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "THERMITE" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
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Expression using "THERMITE": thermite welding. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
thermite | 24 |
reaction thermite | 14 |
make thermite | 11 |
thermite welding | 5 |
making thermite | 5 |
bomb thermite | 4 |
grenade thermite | 2 |
ignite thermite | 2 |
thermite weld | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "THERMITE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | termit (termite, thermit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | термит (termite, thermit, white ant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | termit gyújtóbomba. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ermitethay térmite (termite, thermit). (various references) термит (termite, thermit, white ant). (various references) legura aluminijuma sa gvožđem (thermit). (various references) termit (termite, thermit, white ant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "THERMITE": thermites. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-h-i-m-r-t-t" | |
-1 letter: emitter, termite. | |
-2 letters: either, hermit, hitter, metier, mither, reemit, retime, tether, therme, tither. | |
-3 letters: ether, ither, merit, meter, metre, mirth, miter, mitre, rehem, remet, remit, retem, retie, teeth, their, theme, there, therm, three, timer, titer, tithe, titre, trite. | |
-4 letters: emir, emit, heir, heme, here, herm, hire, item, meet, mere, mete, meth, mire, mite, mitt. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-h-i-m-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: hermetist, thermites. | |
+2 letters: hermetists. | |
+3 letters: ectothermic, harvesttime, hemstitcher, theorematic. | |
+4 letters: amphitheater, bathymetries, harvesttimes, hemstitchers, hereditament, nitromethane, photometries, theocentrism, thermometric. | |
+5 letters: amphitheaters, ethnocentrism, exothermicity, hereditaments, heterogametic, hysterotomies, nitromethanes, theocentrisms, thermochemist, thermometries, thermosetting, tracheotomies. | |
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