The gasbags were inflated with hydrogen, a highly inflammable gas that was highly purified to minimize the risk of fire. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
Adjective : an inflammable disposition. From Dictionary.com.
Mr. Cavendish has shewn that the gas called inflammable air, is at least ten times lighter than common air. From Wordnik.com. [The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation] Reference
Cavendish, made in 1766, that hydrogen gas, called inflammable air, is at least seven times lighter than atmospheric air. From Wordnik.com. [Up in the Clouds Balloon Voyages] Reference
Ralph Touchett had praised his cousin for being morally inflammable, that is for being quick to take a hint that was meant as good advice. From Wordnik.com. [The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1] Reference
I'm also nonplussed by "inflammable" and "flammable" which mean the same thing but look like they mean the opposite. From Wordnik.com. [John Hodgman on "meh" - Waxy.org] Reference
I believe he points out elsewhere in the book that airlines are the very same people who believe us too witless to understand "inflammable". From Wordnik.com. [Allan Jenkins' Desirable Roasted Coffee] Reference
"inflammable" a people as the French -- the epithet is Ste. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2)] Reference
'That he is, but his heart is very inflammable.'. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"Upon my soul!" cried the sultana of the inflammable name. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Pat at School] Reference
An overdone roast served to touch off this inflammable material. From Wordnik.com. [How to Cook Husbands] Reference
Ordinarily ether is a light, very inflammable liquid boiling at 35°. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference
Hydrogen is, as everyone knows, most highly inflammable when mixed with air. From Wordnik.com. [British Airships, Past, Present, and Future] Reference
The temptation is to the latent evil what the spark is to the inflammable material. From Wordnik.com. [Men in the Making] Reference
Thus, the most inflammable gas or liquid will not burn or explode unless oxygenized. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Mechanics for Boys] Reference
It is situated in a country much impregnated with sulphur and other inflammable matters. From Wordnik.com. [Wonders of Creation] Reference
It was fired from cannon at such inflammable targets as wooden ships or powder magazines. From Wordnik.com. [Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America] Reference
The gas generated from the liquid hydrogen was highly inflammable and explosive when confined. From Wordnik.com. [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference
Soviet had been set up, there was a chain of inflammable centres to link up with the revolution. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
The buildings are of stone or some other such inflammable material, with roofs of slate or tile. From Wordnik.com. [In the Flash Ranging Service Observations of an American Soldier During His Service With the A.E.F. in France] Reference
No wonder, then, that Federico found favour in the sight of the dark-browed and inflammable Madrileñas. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
Public Works for £50,000 in order to secure the building against fire; it is built of very inflammable material. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
On the one hand there is helium, a non-inflammable gas which would render airships almost immune to such attacks. From Wordnik.com. [British Airships, Past, Present, and Future] Reference
It was only necessary after that to apply a match to the inflammable material to start an incipient conflagration. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman at Bay Or, a Fiend in Skirts] Reference
Poor Mary blushed till her proximity to things inflammable would have awakened justifiable fears of a conflagration. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
On every side buildings crashed down, sending showers of sparks over the inflammable thatched roof of the nipa house. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route] Reference
Then, before leaving, they set fire to it with grenades as well as with vessels full of inflammable liquid, containing wicks. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference
And she took it down from its pinnacle, and placed it firmly on the middle of a table, at a distance from anything inflammable. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
Then nitrogen, extracted from the ammonia snow that was so plentiful, filled the room, diluting the remaining inflammable gases to. From Wordnik.com. [Unwise Child] Reference
Where an extra source of heat is to be used, it is much safer to use some non-inflammable material such as asbestos or mineral wool. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools] Reference
In this building, which is one of the busiest of the world's terminals, was little inflammable material save that which was movable. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
This small but handy dictionary is full of words that seem to exist just for people to get wrong (see inflammable, principal and among). From Wordnik.com. [MUST HAVE: CAPITOL MISTAKE] Reference
Cases have occurred, in which the breath of the drunkard has become so highly charged with alcohol as to render it actually inflammable by the touch of a taper. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
A peculiarity of this stratum is that the upper part of it contains bands of “inflammable shales,” being blue, laminated, bituminous clays, which burn readily. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
Surakhani, 13 m. east of the town, is the now disused temple of the Parsee fire-worshippers, who were attracted thither by the natural fountains of inflammable gas. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
They knew how inflammable the masses were; they soon saw that the masses were inflamed, and that nothing but the most vigorous measures would secure their thrones from overthrow. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
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