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  • noun The quality or degree of being burnable.

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  • noun the quality of being capable of igniting and burning

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Examples

  • Today's experiment takes advantage of the burnability of flour to create a cool fire-breathing trick.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • An increasing silica modulus impairs the burnability by reducing the liquid phase content, causes slow setting, hardening and also dusting in the kiln.

    5.1 Raw-mix design 1993

  • The burnability of the proposed raw mix has been tested in a muffle furnace by firing nodules at 1450°C for 30 minutes.

    Chapter 17 1993

  • The boylike of conium had been bistroic, swingy, and its no cinerarium i had the sex burnability of a vinogradoff leptotyphlopidae.

    Rational Review 2009

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