How To Use Inflammable In A Sentence
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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.
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
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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.
She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
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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.
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Accordingly they pushed on, and in due time slept at Berwick, receiving civilities from the English governor that chafed Patrick's blood, which became inflammable as soon as he neared the Border; and rising early the next morning, they passed the gates, and were on Scottish ground once more, their hearts bounding at the sense that it was their own land, and would soon be no more a land of misrule.
The Caged Lion
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Highly inflammable," it says on the spare canister.
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For by this time he had artfully concentred and kindled up all the inflammable ingredients of her constitution; and she now looked back upon the virtuous principles of her education, as upon a disagreeable and tedious dream, from which she had waked to the fruition of never-fading joy.
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
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But Archdeacon, I think it's time someone helped you by throwing a little extra light on what could prove to be an inflammable situation.
ULTIMATE PRIZES
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The inflammable catted chimney of logs and clay, hurriedly and readily built by the first settlers, soon gave place in all houses to vast chimneys of stone, built with projecting inner ledges, on which rested a bar about six or seven or even eight feet from the floor, called a lug-pole (lug meaning to carry) or a back-bar; this was made of green wood, and thus charred slowly -- but it charred surely in the generous flames of the great chimney heart.
Home Life in Colonial Days
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Dysenteria, as well as tonsillitis and aphtha, are enumerated amongst the diseases of external membranes, because they are exposed either to the atmospheric air, which is breathed, and swallowed with our food and saliva; or they are exposed to the inflammable air; or hydrogen, which is generated in the intestines; both which contribute to produce or promote the contagious quality of these fluids; as mentioned in Class II.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
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Specimens of everything known in mineralogy lay there in their places in perfect order, and correctly named, divided into inflammable, metallic, and lithoid minerals.
Journey to the Interior of the Earth
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- (of classical temple) having columns at front or back only; (of church) lacking aisles: apterous. apterygial adj. - wingless; finless. apyretic adj. - without fever. apyrexy, n. apyrous adj. - non-inflammable.
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On sait, au contraire, que la couleur noire des corps, annonce qu'ils sont chargés d'une grande quantité de matière inflammable.
The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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These have a greater capacity for overloading circuits which increases the risk of fire. You should also make sure the fuse box does not have inflammable material stored against or near it.
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Bundles of goods containing inflammable material can be seen lying on foot paths blocking already narrow lanes.
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A spokesman said such staircases were meant to be ‘sterile’ areas without inflammable materials.
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The implementation of hot work for station crude oil pipeline must be in accordance with the standard of SY5859-93 because the media transported are solidifiable, inflammable, and explosive.
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He gave instructions accordingly, but directed that all safety precautions should be taken to prevent inflammable material falling off the wharf into the oil.
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_Aguardiente_ will serve a good purpose; -- provided the head be not essentially weak, or too inflammable, it ascends you into the brain, and dries you there, as one hath said, all the nervous, crudy vapors that environ it.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860
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It must be remembered in this connection, on the account of the highly inflammable nature of this substance, that it is not to be followed by the application of the thermocautery.
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At Riobamba, a muddy and inflammable mass, called moya, issues from crevices that close again, and accumulates into elevated hills.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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Pure phosphorus is a non-metallic solid which exists in three forms, one of them highly poisonous and spontaneously inflammable.
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Because raw cotton is an inflammable material, mills had to be made fireproof either in whole or inpart.
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Clearing the top floor of all inflammable materials, lumber etc., will lessen the danger of fire, and prevent a fire spreading.
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`See if you can find anything inflammable around: fuel for that, for instance.
NIGHT SISTERS
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The nitrocelluloses are all highly inflammable bodies, the more highly nitrated burning with explosive force.
The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
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The workers were trapped on upper floors after raw and inflammable materials stored on the ground floor caught fire.
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In that inflammable summer of 1968, my mother died suddenly of a heart attack.
52449_CLARA
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But Archdeacon, I think it's time someone helped you by throwing a little extra light on what could prove to be an inflammable situation.
ULTIMATE PRIZES
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There was other inflammable material at hand in the 1760s.
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The plate was first coated with collodion, a toxic and inflammable mixture that could be bought from druggists since in its simple state it was used to dress wounds.
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Whether unto eight or ten bodies of men to add one of a woman, as being more inflammable and unctuously constituted for the better pyral combustion, were any rational practice; or whether the complaint of Periander's wife be tolerable, that wanting her funeral burning, she suffered intolerable cold in hell, according to the constitution of the infernal house of Pluto, wherein cold makes a great part of their tortures; it cannot pass without some question.
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend
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If it is a shale truck there will be no coal in it, but there occurs among the shale another inflammable rock called cannel, which looks very like ordinary shale but is slightly darker and is known by splitting in parallel lines, like slate.
The Road to Wigan Pier
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Bundles of goods containing inflammable material can be seen lying on foot paths blocking already narrow lanes.
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Les uns le regardant comme le principe de feu, l'ont appellé simplement la matiere inflammable; d'autres l'ont nommé le soufre principe; enfin Stahl lui a donné le nome de phlogistique, qui a été adopté par tous ceux qui l'on suivi.
The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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Regaining new stable equilibrium he rose uninjured though concussed by the impact, raised the latch of the area door by the exertion of force at its freely moving flange and by leverage of the first kind applied at its fulcrum, gained retarded access to the kitchen through the subadjacent scullery, ignited a lucifer match by friction, set free inflammable coal gas by turningon the ventcock, lit a high flame which, by regulating, he reduced to quiescent candescence and lit finally a portable candle.
Ulysses
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Caro has seen one specimen of (bad) carbide which gave a spontaneously inflammable gas although it contained only traces of phosphine; its inflammability being caused by 2.1 per cent. of hydrogen silicide.
Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use
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Comprehensive evacuation procedures, however difficult, however costly, however impossible, now seem the only reasonable path forward, especially because our rural populations will presumably continue to grow and put more people in harm's way when the weather conditions conspire to unleash other firestorms, fueled by immensely inflammable box eucalypt.
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Like the infinite inburst of water; or say rather, of inflammable, self-igniting fluid; for example,
The French Revolution
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The safekeeping party shall have appropriate safekeeping facilities for the storage of inflammable , explosive, poisonous, corrosive, radioactive and other dangerous articles.
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Highly inflammable," it says on the spare canister.
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Refrain from employing any projectile which weighs less than 400 grams that is either explosive or loaded with incendiary or inflammable material, from all projectiles having for their sole object the spreading of asphyxiating or harmful gases, all expanding bullets or those which will easily flatten out inside the human body, such as jacketed bullets whose jacket does not entirely cover the core or is nickel.
Military Instructors Manual
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Residents began clapping and chanting in support of the resistance and threw straw and other inflammable materials on the fire.
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A water extinguisher can put out things like burning wood, paper or cardboard, but it does not work well on electrical fires or fires involving inflammable liquids.
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This important conclusive finding immediately sets at rest the allegation that a mob poured inflammables from outside into the compartment and set the rail compartment ablaze.
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An inflammable substance is an unstable substance that may self-ignite, in other words; it may explode.
Toilet Paper
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In that inflammable summer of 1968, my mother died suddenly of a heart attack.
52449_CLARA
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This gas has also the enormous advantages of being absolutely noninflammable.
The Secrets of the German War Office
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A rocket is a cylindrical metal object containing inflammable material, which, when ignited, propels the rocket to a significant height or distance.
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`The investigators found clear evidence of the introduction of highly inflammable accelerant to the property.
A CONVICTION OF GUILT
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Up until about 30 years ago flammable substances were often described as inflammable (as in the word 'inflame') but this was dangerous as sometimes people thought that inflammable meant
Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
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Out of the court, and a long way out of it, there is considerable excitement too, for men of science and philosophy come to look, and carriages set down doctors at the corner who arrive with the same intent, and there is more learned talk about inflammable gases and phosphuretted hydrogen than the court has ever imagined.
Bleak House
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I saw a lot of highly inflammable materials stacked together while 30 to 40 gas bottles were moved from the scene.
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This introduces a possible danger from fire, in case the hot stove plate should come into direct contact with inflammable packing material such as excelsior or paper.
Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools
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Thus, the most inflammable gas or liquid will not burn or explode unless oxygenized.
Practical Mechanics for Boys
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It stores and processes hundreds of tonnes of toxic and highly inflammable chemicals and compounds.
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But that the inflammable substance [B] alone is the cause of this action, is plain from this, that, according to the 10th paragraph, not the least trace of sulphur remains over, since, according to my experiments this colourless ley contains only some vitriolated tartar.
Discovery of Oxygen, Part 2
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- (of classical temple) having columns at front or back only; (of church) lacking aisles: apterous. apterygial adj. - wingless; finless. apyretic adj. - without fever. apyrexy, n. apyrous adj. - non-inflammable.
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`See if you can find anything inflammable around: fuel for that, for instance.
NIGHT SISTERS
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I'm Irish and inflammable, I suppose, but I never looked on a girl to make a man comprehend the entire holy meaning of the word rapturous, like that one.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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A thorough inspection of the complex 40-hectare site, which contains numerous highly inflammable gas and liquid gas storage and production facilities, would require weeks.
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He doused with petrol and inflammable glue 12 tonnes of illegally poached elephant tusks, worth almost ￡2m.
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The plate was first coated with collodion, a toxic and inflammable mixture that could be bought from druggists since in its simple state it was used to dress wounds.
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Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin's inspired idea was to make airships rigid, so superseding the early blimps, which were fatally vulnerable to leaks from the inflammable hydrogen used to inflate them.
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_ It has been shewn by Dr. Priestley and Mr. Ingenhouz that the green matter at the bottom of cisterns, and the fresh leaves of plants immersed in water, give out considerable quantities of vital air in the sun-shine; that is, the perspirable matter of plants (which is water much divided in its egress from their minute pores) becomes decomposed by the sun's light, and converted into two kinds of air, the vital and inflammable airs.
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
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The inquest was told that the fire was deliberately started when inflammable liquid was poured through the couple's letterbox and ignited using a wick made out of cotton-like material.
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Caro has seen one specimen of (bad) carbide which gave a spontaneously inflammable gas although it contained only traces of phosphine; its inflammability being caused by 2.1 per cent. of hydrogen silicide.
Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use
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As I write I work opt the idea -- gasoline, balls of oakum, caps and gunpowder from a few cartridges, Roman candles, and flares blue, red, and green, shallow metal receptacles to carry the explosive and inflammable stuff; and a trigger-like arrangement by which, pulling on a string, the caps are exploded in the gunpowder and fire set to the gasoline-soaked oakum and to the flares and candles.
CHAPTER XLIV
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Some of the worst domestic fire outbreaks have been a result of keeping inflammable liquids in homes.
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They'll burn, if they can be hit with something clinging and inflammable.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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Don't fight shy of a dollop of surrealism, but do avoid top-to-toe inflammable material.
Times, Sunday Times
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Vessels shall leave the docks immediately upon loading inflammables in the port of Montevideo.
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Highly inflammable methane gas, pumped out harmlessly when mines were open, is building up in abandoned shafts and posing a potential threat to people living on the surface.
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It burst into flames after its highly inflammable gas ignited.
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The fire broke out when a passenger sprayed inflammables on the floor from two bottles and set fire to it.
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Bundles of goods containing inflammable materials and electricity wires dangerously hanging overhead cause recurrent fire.
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Struk is a lighting fixture made of a steel round structure covered by pieces of white noninflammable polyethylene mesh and plastic strips in white colour too.
Church Point House by Utz-Sanby Architects
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Why is that inflammable liquids such as petrol, paraffin and others are sold and stored at these markets without due regard to safety regulations governing the handling of such substances?
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It stores and processes hundreds of tonnes of toxic and highly inflammable chemicals and compounds.
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He cleared out the coals from under the staircase, and built a neat fire of firewood and paper there, he splashed about paraffine and arranged the lamps and can even as he had designed, and made a fine inflammable pile of things in the little parlour behind the shop.
The History of Mr. Polly
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Well, Bluebell is our heroine, and we must make the best of her, -- to some people admiration never does come amiss; and if a demure _oeillade_ can play the mischief with the too inflammable of the rougher sex, I don't know who is to be held accountable except the father of lies.
Bluebell A Novel
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If you are surrounded by easily available inflammable material, you don't have to worry about fuel economy.
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There is some chant, popular among small children, about inflammable trouserings, which seems apposite at this point.
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Whether unto eight or ten bodies of men to add one of a woman, as being more inflammable and unctuously constituted for the better pyral combustion, were any rational practice; or whether the complaint of
Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
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They'll burn, if they can be hit with something clinging and inflammable.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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‘As a garage, we have particular concerns such as vehicle collision, sparks igniting inflammables such as petrol or brake fluid and also manual lifting,’ he said.