Combustible
adjective
A material that can easily catch fire.
Gasoline is a highly combustible substance
noun
A substance that can be burnt to provide heat or power.
Coal, wood and gas are all combustibles
adjective
A material that can easily catch fire.
Gasoline is a highly combustible substance
noun
A substance that can be burnt to provide heat or power.
Coal, wood and gas are all combustibles
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Pro Tip 1/3Safety Hazard
Use 'combustible' when discussing safety to highlight fire risks.
Store combustible materials away from heat sources.
Pro Tip 2/3Technical Contexts
In technical or scientific content, 'combustible' is used to classify materials.
This fabric has been treated to be less combustible.
Pro Tip 3/3Emphasis on Risk
'Combustible' sometimes emphasizes the potential danger more than 'flammable'.
Due to its highly combustible nature, the chemical must be handled with care.
Pro Tip 1/3Safety Hazard
Use 'combustible' when discussing safety to highlight fire risks.
Store combustible materials away from heat sources.
Pro Tip 2/3Technical Contexts
In technical or scientific content, 'combustible' is used to classify materials.
This fabric has been treated to be less combustible.
Pro Tip 3/3Emphasis on Risk
'Combustible' sometimes emphasizes the potential danger more than 'flammable'.
Due to its highly combustible nature, the chemical must be handled with care.
Pro Tip 1/3Safety Hazard
Use 'combustible' when discussing safety to highlight fire risks.
Store combustible materials away from heat sources.
Pro Tip 2/3Technical Contexts
In technical or scientific content, 'combustible' is used to classify materials.
This fabric has been treated to be less combustible.
Pro Tip 3/3Emphasis on Risk
'Combustible' sometimes emphasizes the potential danger more than 'flammable'.
Due to its highly combustible nature, the chemical must be handled with care.
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Video examples
What triggers a chemical...
Your match adds enough energy to activate the exothermic reaction of combustion, converting the high-energy combustible material in the wood to lower energy carbon dioxide and water. Entropy also increases and helps the reaction along
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How to rebuild the world...
from those air holes and what's happening is that the wood is breaking down in the heat of the fire and giving off lots of gases and vapors and smoke which is itself combustible and we then reintroduce oxygen in fact hot gas to
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Science can answer moral...
Chris So, some combustible material there. Whether in this audience or people elsewhere in the world, hearing some of this, may well be doing the screaming-with-rage thing, after as well, some of them.
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Pilot Program PIPE The...
the capsule sits upon 25 tons highly combustible ethyl alcohol and liquid oxygen powering a rocket eye engine that
Video examples
What triggers a chemical...
Your match adds enough energy to activate the exothermic reaction of combustion, converting the high-energy combustible material in the wood to lower energy carbon dioxide and water. Entropy also increases and helps the reaction along
Video examples
How to rebuild the world...
from those air holes and what's happening is that the wood is breaking down in the heat of the fire and giving off lots of gases and vapors and smoke which is itself combustible and we then reintroduce oxygen in fact hot gas to
Video examples
Science can answer moral...
Chris So, some combustible material there. Whether in this audience or people elsewhere in the world, hearing some of this, may well be doing the screaming-with-rage thing, after as well, some of them.
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Pilot Program PIPE The...
the capsule sits upon 25 tons highly combustible ethyl alcohol and liquid oxygen powering a rocket eye engine that
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Quote examples
Nancy Gibbs
American Journalist
Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.
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Carl Sagan
American Scientist
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
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Queen Rania of Jordan
Jordanian Royalty
Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
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Homaro Cantu
American Inventor
From a very young age, I liked to take apart things. All of my Christmas gifts would wind up in a million pieces. I actually recall taking apart my dad's lawnmower three times to understand how combustible engines work.
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Chuck Hagel
American Politician
When you're dealing in situations that are uncontrollable and combustible, you try to stabilize the situation as quickly as you can and then work toward and work out toward democratic reform.
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Juan Williams
American Journalist
I support gun control. But speaking honestly about the combustible mix of race and guns may be more important to stopping the slaughter in minority communities than any new gun-control laws.
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Albert Wynn
American Politician
Fuel cell vehicles run on clean-burning hydrogen and are three times more efficient than the traditional combustible engine.
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Ambrose Bierce
American Journalist
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Nancy Gibbs
American Journalist
Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.
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Carl Sagan
American Scientist
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
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Queen Rania of Jordan
Jordanian Royalty
Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
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Homaro Cantu
American Inventor
From a very young age, I liked to take apart things. All of my Christmas gifts would wind up in a million pieces. I actually recall taking apart my dad's lawnmower three times to understand how combustible engines work.
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Chuck Hagel
American Politician
When you're dealing in situations that are uncontrollable and combustible, you try to stabilize the situation as quickly as you can and then work toward and work out toward democratic reform.
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Juan Williams
American Journalist
I support gun control. But speaking honestly about the combustible mix of race and guns may be more important to stopping the slaughter in minority communities than any new gun-control laws.
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Albert Wynn
American Politician
Fuel cell vehicles run on clean-burning hydrogen and are three times more efficient than the traditional combustible engine.
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Ambrose Bierce
American Journalist
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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