flammable vs inflammable
Definitions
adjective
- easily ignited
Examples
When flammable powders are dispersed in the air, they can explode.
Rear panel and wall trims must be heat-resistant and consist of a non-flammable material.
The bonfire will last only as long as supply of cards, flowers and other flammable material is available, so get there early!
Definitions
adjective
- easily ignited
Examples
Struk is a lighting fixture made of a steel round structure covered by pieces of white noninflammable polyethylene mesh and plastic strips in white colour too.
_ It has been shewn by Dr. Priestley and Mr. Ingenhouz that the green matter at the bottom of cisterns, and the fresh leaves of plants immersed in water, give out considerable quantities of vital air in the sun-shine; that is, the perspirable matter of plants (which is water much divided in its egress from their minute pores) becomes decomposed by the sun's light, and converted into two kinds of air, the vital and inflammable airs.
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin's inspired idea was to make airships rigid, so superseding the early blimps, which were fatally vulnerable to leaks from the inflammable hydrogen used to inflate them.
