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- Combustible - a. - Capable of taking fire and burning; apt to catch fire; inflammable.
- Combustible - a. - Easily kindled or excited; quick; fiery; irascible.
- Combustible - n. - A substance that may be set on fire, or which is liable to take fire and burn.
- Combustibleness - n. - Combustibility.
- Squib - a. - A little pipe, or hollow cylinder of paper, filled with powder or combustible matter, to be thrown into the air while burning, so as to burst there with a crack.
- Downcome - n. - A pipe for leading combustible gases downward from the top of the blast furnace to the hot-blast stoves, boilers, etc., where they are burned.
- Producer - n. - A furnace for producing combustible gas which is used for fuel.
- Empyrical - a. - Containing the combustible principle of coal.
- Orthoxylene - n. - That variety of xylene in which the two methyl groups are in the ortho position; a colorless, liquid, combustible hydrocarbon resembling benzene.
- Star - n. - A composition of combustible matter used in the heading of rockets, in mines, etc., which, exploding in the air, presents a starlike appearance.
- Bavin - n. - A fagot of brushwood, or other light combustible matter, for kindling fires; refuse of brushwood.
- Oil - n. - Any one of a great variety of unctuous combustible substances, not miscible with water; as, olive oil, whale oil, rock oil, etc. They are of animal, vegetable, or mineral origin and of varied composition, and they are variously used for food, for solvents, for anointing, lubrication, illumination, etc. By extension, any substance of an oily consistency; as, oil of vitriol.
- Fuze - n. - A tube, filled with combustible matter, for exploding a shell, etc. See Fuse, n.
- Cymene - n. - A colorless, liquid, combustible hydrocarbon, CH3.C6H4.C3H7, of pleasant odor, obtained from oil of cumin, oil of caraway, carvacrol, camphor, etc.; -- called also paracymene, and formerly camphogen.
- Firework - n. - A device for producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the combustion of materials that burn in some peculiar manner, as gunpowder, sulphur, metallic filings, and various salts. The most common feature of fireworks is a paper or pasteboard tube filled with the combustible material. A number of these tubes or cases are often combined so as to make, when kindled, a great variety of figures in fire, often variously colored. The skyrocket is a common form of firework. The name is also given to various combustible preparations used in war.
- Mother - n. - A film or membrane which is developed on the surface of fermented alcoholic liquids, such as vinegar, wine, etc., and acts as a means of conveying the oxygen of the air to the alcohol and other combustible principles of the liquid, thus leading to their oxidation.
- Carburize - v. t. - To combine with carbon or a carbon compound; -- said esp. of a process for conferring a higher degree of illuminating power on combustible gases by mingling them with a vapor of volatile hydrocarbons.
- Coal - n. - A black, or brownish black, solid, combustible substance, dug from beds or veins in the earth to be used for fuel, and consisting, like charcoal, mainly of carbon, but more compact, and often affording, when heated, a large amount of volatile matter.
- Combustion - n. - The combination of a combustible with a supporter of combustion, producing heat, and sometimes both light and heat.
- Rocket - n. - An artificial firework consisting of a cylindrical case of paper or metal filled with a composition of combustible ingredients, as niter, charcoal, and sulphur, and fastened to a guiding stick. The rocket is projected through the air by the force arising from the expansion of the gases liberated by combustion of the composition. Rockets are used as projectiles for various purposes, for signals, and also for pyrotechnic display.
- Fuse - n. - A tube or casing filled with combustible matter, by means of which a charge of powder is ignited, as in blasting; -- called also fuzee. See Fuze.
- Torch - n. - A light or luminary formed of some combustible substance, as of resinous wood; a large candle or flambeau, or a lamp giving a large, flaring flame.
- Pyre - n. - A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which the dead are burned; hence, any pile to be burnt.
- Fuel - n. - Any matter used to produce heat by burning; that which feeds fire; combustible matter used for fires, as wood, coal, peat, etc.
- Coal - n. - A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.
- Amadou - n. - A spongy, combustible substance, prepared from fungus (Boletus and Polyporus) which grows on old trees; German tinder; punk. It has been employed as a styptic by surgeons, but its common use is as tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking it in a strong solution of niter.
- Priming - n. - The powder or other combustible used to communicate fire to a charge of gunpowder, as in a firearm.