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spontaneous combustion

NOUN
  1. ignition of a substance (as oily rags) resulting from an internal oxidation process

How To Use spontaneous combustion In A Sentence

  • Other cases of spontaneous combustion have a weather explanation. Times, Sunday Times
  • Other cases of spontaneous combustion have a weather explanation. Times, Sunday Times
  • Holmes investigates the possible spontaneous combustion of a cantankerous old man.
  • Other cases of spontaneous combustion have a weather explanation. Times, Sunday Times
  • Fire -- General remarks; to obtain fire from the sun (burning-glasses, reflectors); by conversion of motion into heat (flint and steel, guns, lucifers, fire-sticks); by chemical means (spontaneous combustion); tinder; tinder-boxes; fuel; small fuel for lighting the fire; to kindle a spark into a flame; camp fires Burning down trees; hollows in wood; fire-beacons; prairie on fire; first obliterate cache marks; leave an enduring mark; heating power of fuels; blacksmithery; wet clothes, to dry; tent, to warm; incombustible stuffs (see "Brands"). The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries
  • Thorn's disrobing is interrupted by the spontaneous combustion of Bone’s hat, for Fone Bone has been watching in stunned silence from behind a nearby hill (pp. 54-55). The Vivisection of Bone, Part 1: Romancing the Bone
  • The coal gangue dump mode and the effective particle-size makeup decide the air permeability of coal gangue to a certain extent, which accelerates the spontaneous combustion.
  • They were enthusiastic to the point of spontaneous combustion. Times, Sunday Times
  • Are you sure that's automobile spontaneous combustion and not the new Toyota charcoal BBQ?
  • The Korean giant had already launched a partial recall after reports of spontaneous combustion while charging. Times, Sunday Times
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