What is "combustible"

Usage examples of "combustible".

It oxidises most combustible substances with deflagration, and thereby converts sulphides into sulphates, arsenides into arsenates, and most metals into oxides.

The old glass palace of our childhood had been rebuilt in a more solid, less combustible version and there I found Dunster, standing under the reconstruction of a winged Victorian angel which was holding out a laurel wreath, as though to drop it on his head as some quite unmerited reward.

There are also strong elements of self-punishment and self-destruction added to the combustible mix that is the dyad narcissist-inverted narcissist.

Switters since his digestive tract found arrack as combustible as pisco and since sobriety could be a useful ally in a hasty getaway.

The nauseating odor of urine and feces was overlaid with the sharper scent of the combustible fluid.

His an had already built up to a combustible force, but contained, revealing itself only in his blood-red a plerion, his bulging, angry eyes, and his clenched i held firmly against his thighs.

For this purpose they constructed a sort of grate or hurdle, consisting of twenty bars of Brazil wood, laid crosswise half a foot from each other, upon which the flesh of prisoners of war or of game was laid in pieces, and a thick smoke raised beneath from properly selected combustibles, which gave to the meat the vermil color and a delightful smell.

Words ending in le commonly have the accent on the first syllable, as amicable, unless the second syllable have a vowel before two consonants, as combustible.

Whatever is combustible flashes into flame at its touch, lead runs like water, it softens iron, cracks and melts glass, and when it falls upon water, incontinently that explodes into steam.

A crude and cheap form of combustible methedrine, favored by the same sort of addictive class that sniffs gasoline fumes or coats the inside of a paper bag with airplane glue and puts the bag over their face and breathes until they fall down and start to convulse.

The combustible fuel within the housing swam through the mechanisms, chilled by scalelike cooling vanes.

Smoke and flames from the dongas told that some of our shells had fallen among the wagons and their combustible stores.

While slaves worked gears that slowly turned the disks, the praetorians set fire to combustibles beneath each wheel.

The water has not even any taste, and I can neither offer nor imagine any better explanation, than that it acquires this combustible property by passing over some aluminous land.

A surge of flaming oil swamped the surrounding waterfront structures and launched a chain reaction of explosions from combustible cargoes sitting on the docks.