Accordingly, every wooden house has from one hundred to one thousand wooden flues of a highly inflammable character arranged expressly to carry fire from the bottom to the top, valiantly consuming themselves in the operation.
But flame-throwing apparatus had its drawbacks: there was always the danger that the tank of highly inflammable oil might be burst open by a shell or hand-grenade and its contents set on fire.
The great German Zeppelins were far from a success because they depended for their buoyancy on a highly inflammable gas.
There was some danger to the operator in handling a highly inflammable oil.
He seems also to think it possible to generate a gas, at a moderate expense, which, by mixing with the atmospheric current, will so far neutralize the inflammable air, as to prevent it firing at the candles of the workmen.
On some of the Combinations of Oxy-muriatic Gas and Oxygen, and on the chemical relations of those principles to inflammable bodies.
Sir James Lowther had observed early in the last century, that the fire-damp in its usual form was not inflammable by sparks from flint and steel; and it appears that a person in his employment invented the machine in question.
Gaseous oxide of carbon, which explodes when mixed with two parts of air, is likewise inflammable by red-hot iron, and charcoal.
He made particular enquiries into the nature of the danger arising from the discharge of the inflammable gas in our mines.
To obviate the objection arising from the use of sulphuric acid in open bottles, an ingenious contrivance was adopted, by which each match contained its own reservoir of acid sufficient for igniting the inflammable compound.
These phosphorus boxes answered the purpose very well, but the apprehended danger of using so inflammable a substance prevented their coming into general use; and they were much more costly than a tinder-box.
Beds of coal, lying at a great depth, are frequently pierced by the borers for salt water, and from these wells the inflammable gas springs up.
All the sewers beneath Paris had been strewn with torpedoes, bombs, and inflammable materials, connected with electric wires.
Almost the first thing done was to send sappers and miners underground to cut the wires that connected electric currents with inflammable material in all parts of the city.
Two days of disorganization, idleness, and excitement had made workmen more inflammable than when they remained passive under the appeals of Victor Hugo.
At the training camps, in spite of their inflammable construction, the average annual loss from fire per capita was only 46 cents.
These bombs were used against ammunition depots or any structures of aninflammable nature.
Our Engineers made this decision because of the impossibility of finding permanent dyes for raffia and because raffia is more inflammable than burlap and scarcer and higher in price.
They used a special apparatus, something like a big rifle, for throwing naphtha or some similar inflammable substance” (c 19).
Richmond was always a great place for excitements; but with the great addition of inflammable material recently, it required but a very small spark to raise a roaring, if not dangerous, flame.
The first warm impulses of patriotic and inflammable masses had pedestaled him as a demigod.
Old, dry and crammed with cotton, or other inflammable material, these burned like tinder; and at many points, whole blocks were on fire.
Justin had on a few occasions showed a decidedlyinflammable temper.
The one great blemish, or fault, was a quick and inflammable temper, that almost resisted control.
There must be a cold head, however, under the bright cap; otherwise, and with a brain as inflammable as my own, I am very well convinced that bright steel would be just as ignitible as dull iron.
But the same cedars that finished the interior of meaner houses, formed its floors and ceilings; every chamber was covered with mats, and most of them were hung with the most inflammable kind of tapestry.
This earth of ours is really a great powder-magazine there is enough inflammable and explosive material about it to blow it into shreds at any moment.
There is considerable difference of opinion as to whether the bead of the comet is solid matter or inflammable gas.
These edifices, filled with light and inflammable goods, are liable to danger from the constant fires which occur at Constantinople, though they are in some measure protected by their construction, and the thickness of the walls.
It did cost me several minutes before the firing of the inflammable air proved successful; during which time he was in a very impatient emotion; and, when that was done, it did indeed surprise him.
He was prepared for every experiment I exhibited, except the firing of the inflammable air.
Probably a much cheaper engine of this sort might be produced by gas-light apparatus, and by firing the inflammable air generated, with a due portion of common air, under a piston.
If the fire is previously prepared with wood or some other combustible material, and a small quantity of inflammable spirits sprinkled over it, the slightest spark will throw the whole into a blaze.
The inflammable air-lamp contrived by Volta possesses similar properties: a stream of hydrogen gas being inflamed by the spark from an electrophorus.
The French have experimentally shown the great power produced by igniting inflammable fluids in close vessels; and several years ago, an engine was made in this country to work in a similar manner, by the inflammation of spirit of tar.
The Germans strewed the cottages with their black inflammable tablets, which had been made for such cases, and set their torches to the window- curtains before marching away to make other bonfires on their road of retreat.
Evidently there was a quantity of highly-inflammable oil stored within the building, for with extreme violence lurid flames shot skywards, their brilliancy outclassing the glare of the search-light.
Carbon disulphid is very inflammable and can be ignited by a match, lantern, cigar, or pipe.
Even with commercial pastes the action of sun and rain changes the phosphorus and leaches out the glucose until a highly inflammable residue is left.
The nitrocelluloses are all highly inflammable bodies, the more highly nitrated burning with explosive force.
All those metals that are positive to others are also more inflammable than those others, and burn more readily.
On Saturday, on Hydrogen Gas and the Composition of Water, Sulphurated and Phosphorated Hydrogen; and a specimen of the philosophical fireworks with the inflammable air will be exhibited.
His object was to prove by decisive experiments that the light which accompanies the complete combustion of any given quantity of pure inflammable matter is variable, and therefore light cannot be one of the chemical products of combustion.
On February 24 he had a paper read before the French Institute on the 'Heat Manifested in the Combustion ofInflammable Substances.
Of the Combustion of Inflammable Bodies, and the relative quantities of Heat producible by the different substances used as fuel.
In oil of turpentine the process is more rapid than in any other oil I have tried, and this oil contains either water or the elements of water, and perhaps a larger proportion of oxygen to its inflammable matter.
It was an 'Inquiry Concerning the Source of the Light which is Manifested in the Combustion of Inflammable Bodies.
Certain inflammable Southerners introduced the new game, and left such romantic legends of their loves behind them that their successors were fired with an ambition to do the like, and excel in all things, from cricket to captivation.
The device of concealing an ugly mantel-piece by folds of drapery brings an inflammable substance so close to the fire that there is a suggestion of danger even where there is no actual risk.
There is indeed something of unfitness in the use of an inflammable material surrounding a fireplace.
Mr. Tytler went up without the furnace this morning; when that is added he will be able to feed the balloon with inflammable air, and continue his aerial excursions as long as he chooses.
To remedy this defect, Mr. Tytler has got it covered with a varnish to retain the inflammable air after the balloon is filled.
Cavendish had already discovered what he designated "inflammable air," though no one had as yet given it its later title of hydrogen gas.
Certain kinds of dust are of economic importance on account of their inflammable and explosive character when mixed with the right proportions of air.
Marsh gas and other inflammable gases commonly rise from such places, and are often ignited by man, or by lightning, etc.
After this last operation, you will obtain a highly penetrating and inflammable Spirit of Roses.
The scent of inflammable Spirit of Roses is extremely sweet; if only two drops of it are mixed with a glass of Water, they impart to the Water so high a perfume, that it exceeds the very best Rose-water.
To distil an inflammable Spirit from Flowers of all kinds, the preceding method must be used; as also to procure one from all kinds of vegetables.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inflammable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
