combustibility
Americannoun
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the quality, or degree of being combustible; inflammability; flammability.
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the tendency to become easily excited or aroused emotionally.
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"We usually associate fire activity with increasing heat -- drier conditions, enhanced combustibility, and so on," Allen said.
From Science Daily ● May 29, 2024
We are, for the most part, on our own, in figuring out how to make this American experiment work with the least amount of combustibility, as possible.
From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2023
The conifers of a combustibility they had never encountered.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2023
Forest management can also be a factor in the state’s combustibility, multiple experts said, as decades of wildfire suppression have simultaneously protected communities and enabled dry vegetation to pile up on forest floors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2021
Try the combustibility of As, Sb, and Cu.
From An Introduction to Chemical Science by Rufus Phillips Williams
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