Sentence examples for flammability from inspiring English sources

FIRES on Boeing's new 787 Dreamliners, together with two recent fire-related crashes of freighter aircraft, have increased fears about the flammability of modern aeroplanes.

California's residents have the highest exposures, which the authors speculate may be due to the state's strict flammability legislation.

The plasticizer may also change the flammability, odour, biodegradability, and cost of the finished product.

Although the cellulose molecules retained their threadlike shape in solution, making it possible to spin them into fibres, their extreme flammability made them unacceptable for the textile industry (although in highly nitrated form they found immediate use as guncotton, the base of smokeless gunpowders).

Selective logging increases the flammability of the forest because it converts a closed, wetter forest into a more open, drier one.

Retardants, such as sodium calcium borate, reduce the flammability of wood and therefore its rate of burning.

Because of the flammability and expense of cyclopropane, it is usually used in a closed (rebreathing) system, in which an absorbent chemical, such as soda lime, removes exhaled carbon dioxide, and the anesthetic is recirculated.

It is an effective solvent for fats, oils, greases, and many polymeric substances; its use is favoured by low toxicity, low flammability, high stability, and ease of recovery for reuse.

The physical flammability of film itself is deployed as a weapon, neatly bringing Bowie's conceit — "I've been putting out fire with gasoline" — to fruition.

In 2001, Michael R. Swain, associate professor and associate chairman at the University of Miami's College of Engineering, conducted an experiment comparing the flammability of hydrogen and gasoline.

The bottle Mr. Sigworth used contains a warning label about flammability, similar to those found on hairspray and other aerosol products.