flammable vs inflammable
Definitions
adjective
- easily ignited
Examples
When flammable powders are dispersed in the air, they can explode.
Rear panel and wall trims must be heat-resistant and consist of a non-flammable material.
The bonfire will last only as long as supply of cards, flowers and other flammable material is available, so get there early!
Definitions
adjective
- easily ignited
Examples
Whatever will unite with _pure_ air, and thence compose an acid, is esteemed in this ingenious theory to be a different kind of phlogistic or inflammable body.
Owing to its swollen condition the river was unfordable but knowing that there was a covered bridge at Duguidsville, I hoped to secure it by a dash, and cross there, but the enemy, anticipating this, had filled the bridge with inflammable material, and just as our troops got within striking distance it burst into flames.
A room in which inflammable gas and oxygen are regularly present, such as, perhaps, a chemical laboratory, is one in which every effort will be made to prevent the occurrence of electric sparks.
