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How To Use combust In A Sentence

• The engine on the X-51, called a supersonic-combustion ramjet, or "scramjet," pulls off a couple of especially tricky tasks. When Supersonic Is Just Too Slow
• For example, when speaking of burning human poop he says “On a wet basis, it can have less than 1000 Btu/lb, which is too little to sustain its own combustion.” Blast from the Past: Flaming Babies! « Whatever
• If a pile rises to 160 degrees or more it could spontaneously combust, which is why the zoo is acquiring a thermometer to measure internal temperature of its manure piles. STLtoday.com Top News Headlines
• combustion products are exhausted in the engine
• I finally decided to use a ‘sagger,’ a container in which the pottery is placed, along with a combustible material (sawdust).
• At the moment when she makes her entrance into this history which we are relating, she was an antique virtue, an incombustible prude, with one of the sharpest noses, and one of the most obtuse minds that it is possible to see. Les Miserables
• The war-time hangars were not suited for comfort, and it was not until 1956 that combustion heating was provided in the classroom.
• Anyone who can overhaul an internal combustion engine can hold his own in the intelligence department. Christianity Today
• Some of the more exotic, smoked flavors, including hickory and applewood, are express-smoked under pressure in a controlled-combustion smoke chamber.
• Dioxins, and furans, are chemical compounds generated as by-products of most forms of combustion, particularly of plastics and rubber.