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Example sentences for "spontaneous combustion"

  • One decided that this was a case of spontaneous combustion.

  • But no well-authenticated case of spontaneous combustion is known.

  • The second that it was not a case of spontaneous combustion.

  • State what you can on the subject of spontaneous combustion.

  • State what is said of spontaneous combustion.

  • Moreover, that I had spent weeks in the neighborhood of the mines, and never heard anything of iron pyrites or spontaneous combustion.

  • I knew when I was in the Territory that the mine was on fire, as I have heretofore stated; but I heard no intimation of spontaneous combustion.

  • The Annales de Chimie, tome xxxv, mentions some instances of spontaneous combustion in powder mills.

  • We have stated (See Gunpowder) some instances of spontaneous combustion, which have taken place merely in consequence of the charcoal.

  • There are numerous cases of spontaneous combustion of the human body reported by the older writers.

  • Lamp-black mixed with linseed oil is more liable to spontaneous combustion, than anything that servants handle.

  • Spontaneous Combustion" Kennedy and I had risen early, for we were hustling to get off for a week-end at Atlantic City.

  • Spontaneous combustion is at present very little understood, though chemists have of late turned their attention to the subject.

  • The cause of most fires which have arisen from spontaneous combustion is lost in the consequence.

  • This is an example of so-called "spontaneous combustion.

  • The conditions for "spontaneous combustion" do not differ from those of any combustion.

  • Spontaneous combustion is that which occurs in various bodies when they become highly heated by chemical changes.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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