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comburent

Today it means: Promoting combustion (for example, by reacting with fuel and promoting a redox reaction). (Contrast combustible.) Full definition →

Latin combūrēns

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Latin · borrowed fromcombūrēns
English todaycomburent

Borrowed from Latin combūrēns, present active participle of combūrere. By surface analysis, combure + -ent.

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