combustible

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1. combustible - Noun

2. combustible - Adjective

Meaning

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.

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In 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

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