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Definition of Combustibles
1. combustible [n] - See also: combustible
Lexicographical Neighbors of Combustibles
Literary usage of Combustibles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. System of Chemistry for the Use of Students of Medicine by Franklin Bache (1819)
"combustibles of this class will be called into acidifying combustibles. ...
These bodies will be called intermediate combustibles. IV. ..."
2. A System of Chemistry by Thomas Thomson, Thomas Cooper (1818)
"Were we to suppose that the supporters contain caloric as a component part, while
combustibles contain light, it would not be difficult to explain what ..."
3. An Outline of Mineralogy and Geology: Intended for the Use of Those who May by William Phillips (1816)
"ALKALIES, METALS, and combustibles. That they are naturally found either simple
oj compound; the simple consisting of one substance alone, the compound of ..."
4. Power, Heating and Ventilation ...: A Treatise for Designing and by Charles Lincoln Hubbard (1914)
"Non-combustibles.—The most important of the non-combustibles are ash, water,
oxygen, and nitrogen. Ash includes all solid residue which remains after the ..."
5. Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge (1903)
"/"CERTAIN mineral combustibles may fairly claim attention in a ... The true nature
of coal—that most important of all combustibles- its relation to the past ..."
6. A Chymical Catechism, Or, The Application of Chymistry to the Arts: For the by Samuel Parkes (1807)
"Those combustible substances which have resisted every afc tempt to decompose
them, are called simple combustibles-}-. Endeavour to enumerate the simple ..."
7. Engineering Chemistry by Thomas Bliss Stillman (1900)
"... and combustibles. Electricity to Work. BT Ü. Steam, Light and combustibles.
Cubic Foot Ordinary Illuminating Gas per Hour = 650 (log ..."
8. The Museum of Science and Art by Dionysius Lardner (1854)
"All combustibles produce carbonic acid and water.—15. Carburetted hydrogen.—16.
... combustibles used for illumination. — 29. Their effect on the air.—30. ..."
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