1. combustible - Noun
2. combustible - Adjective
Capable of taking fire and burning; apt to catch fire; inflammable.
Easily kindled or excited; quick; fiery; irascible.
A substance that may be set on fire, or which is liable to take fire and burn.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIn France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one's face. Bill Bryson
Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. Ambrose Bierce
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. Carl Sagan
Fuel cell vehicles run on clean-burning hydrogen and are three times more efficient than the traditional combustible engine. Albert Wynn
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. Carl Sagan
And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it? Carl Sagan