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
The conifers of a combustibility they had never encountered.
From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2023
Both of the fires have been driven by the heat and drought, which together have dried the state’s landscape to the point of extreme combustibility.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2021
The lead architect had never heard the phrase limited combustibility - the standard recommended for insulation on high-rise buildings.
From BBC • Dec. 22, 2020
Deflagrabil′ity, combustibility; Deflagrā′tion; Def′lagrator, a galvanic instrument for producing rapid combustion.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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