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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Bamboo scaffolds have "intrinsic weaknesses such as variation in mechanical properties, deterioration over time and high combustibility, etc, giving rise to safety concerns", the bureau's spokesperson Terence Lam was quoted as saying.
From BBC • Nov. 26, 2025
"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
Strategic Bombing Survey noted, the No. 1 factor driving target selection was a city's "combustibility."
From Salon • Oct. 30, 2022
But the worst of its failings is its combustibility.
From Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries by Slosson, Edwin E.
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