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1 This is a slow combustion , a sort of more active respiration than usual.
2 Animal heat you know to be due to the slow combustion of this fuel.
3 Interior features include timber-lined ceilings, natural gas heating, two slow combustion fireplaces and four bathrooms.
4 Why this slow combustion , "this species of respiration, more active than in the ordinary state"?
5 My arm is now inactive, and the ordinary slow combustion of my blood and tissue is going on.
6 The respiration of human beings and animals is a form of slow combustion and is the source of animal heat.
7 The nitre in the paper causes a continuance of slow combustion , diffusing during that time the agreeable perfume of the odoriferous gums.
8 The action is a process of slow combustion , and it is principally by the heat thus evolved that the body is kept warm.
9 An example of this slow combustion , or oxidation, is found in the conversion of iron into rust as the metal combines with the active gas.
10 Often has he laughed over haughty Valois' iron-clad bread, his own flinty beans, the slabs of pork, cooked as a burnt offering by slow combustion .
11 Other features of the home include a 6.6kw solar system, town water, a well-sized dam and a slow combustion wood fireplace.
12 By such fumigation, as when brown paper is allowed to smoulder (undergo slow combustion ) in a room for the purpose of covering bad smells.
13 Slow combustion is the decaying of wood or iron by the elements.
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