inflammability

Joseph Priestley, the great Unitarian humanist and discoverer of oxygen, was wedded to a bogus theory of the chemistry of gasses wherein they burned into “phlogiston,” which he called a “principle of inflammability.”

Flaws of Gravity Hitchens, Christopher 2008

The main properties of asbestos fibers that can be exploited in industrial applications are their thermal, electrical, and sound insulation; inflammability; matrix reinforcement (cement, plastic, and resins); adsorption capacity (filtration, liquid sterilization); wear and friction properties (friction materials); and chemical inertia (except in acids).

Asbestos 2008

He accordingly resolved to manufacture and employ pyroxyle, although it has some inconveniences, that is to say, a great inequality of effect, an excessive inflammability, since it takes fire at one hundred and seventy degrees instead of two hundred and forty, and lastly, an instantaneous deflagration which might damage the firearms.

The Mysterious Island 2005

He accordingly resolved to manufacture and employ pyroxyle, although it has some inconveniences, that is to say, a great inequality of effect, an excessive inflammability, since it takes fire at one hundred and seventy degrees instead of two hundred and forty, and lastly, an instantaneous deflagration which might damage the firearms.

The Mysterious Island 2005

Once, in the startling inflammability of his blood, his veins ran hot, and he smiled.

The Trespasser 2003

The same applies to furniture fittings with discharge lamps, if the inflammability of the respective piece of furniture is not known.

10. Mounting of Lighting Installations Frank Ponemunski 1991

Lighting fittings bearing a furniture mark may be fitted on materials of normal or little inflammability.

10. Mounting of Lighting Installations Frank Ponemunski 1991

-- Since calcium carbide is only useful as a means of preparing acetylene, it should be bought under a guarantee (1) that it contains less impurities than suffice to render the crude gas dangerous in respect of spontaneous inflammability, or objectionable in a manner to be explained later on, when consumed; and (2) that it is capable of evolving a fixed minimum quantity of acetylene when decomposed by water.

Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield

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 W. J. Atkinson Butterfield

No doubt the spontaneous inflammability was due to the exceptional richness of these lumps in phosphorus.

Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield