As soon as I got home, I removed anything that might be flammable from outside my house and started the sprinklers.
Modern airships are different beasts: they use helium, not flammable hydrogen, and are wrapped in sturdy material.
Quite apart from the overt threat, the MP lit the touchpaper of Malaysia's highly flammable racial politics; this was a Malay MP insulting a prominent member of the Indian community.
ReprintsBurundi is at the best of times highly flammable.
What is known is that by the ninth century Arab authors such as Jaber bin Hayyan, an Iraqi polymath best known for elaborating al-jabr or algebra, were describing "flammable vapours" at the mouths of heated wine vessels.His contemporary, the legendary poet and lush Abu Nawas (who died in 815AD), was less prim.
In warm-water spills the lighter, flammable fractions of the oil evaporate within hours.But whatever advantages the Arctic offers for oil-spill response, they are overwhelmingly outweighed by the difficulty of access.
Even if they are hit, though, they do not explode because the helium gas that keeps them airborne is not flammable.
Poorly constructed ones contribute to a nexus of problems: the spread of disease (because they have no proper sanitation or ventilation), the perpetuation of poverty (because children have no proper lights to study by) and the general sense of insecurity (because they are so flimsy and flammable).
Mr Medvedev takes office next week.Yet even if either side (or both) is overstating the case, the Caucasus is too flammable a place to be ignored.
They both involve heating, rather than burning, waste until it breaks down into a flammable mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, called syngas, and residual char, ash or slag.
State legislatures are not only hotbeds of sexual misbehaviour, in which a flammable brew of powerful officials and eager young staff-members is constantly on the simmer, but they often subscribe to a code of ethics that makes Capitol Hill resemble a convent.The Centre for Public Integrity, a non-partisan group, sent some researchers recently to the Illinois legislature in Springfield.
