Sentence examples for for combustible from inspiring English sources
No federal workplace standard exists for combustible dust.
His studies vastly extended knowledge of volcanoes, and his search for combustible material, such as coal, which Werner insisted was necessary for volcanic action, proved fruitless.
Just 200 years ago, most scientists thought of heat as a substance called phlogiston (Greek for "combustible"), a fluid invisibly oozing into and out of objects.
One banker, he writes, "suspected that Paulson would push for combustible mortgages and debt to go into any C.D.O., making it more likely that it would go up in flames".
But Mr. Jackson has a taste for combustible rhythm sections, like the one he leads this weekend, with Orrin Evans on piano, Corcoran Holt on bass and McClenty Hunter on drums.
Eric Frumin, the health and safety coordinator for the labor union federation Change to Win, said the fines could have been much higher if OSHA had regulations for combustible dust.
The technology is based on a combination of four principles: use of heterogeneous catalysts for complete oxidation of combustibles; combustion of fuels in a fluidized bed of catalyst particles; combustion of fuels without a significant excess of air; overlapping the processes of heat release and removal within the same fluidized bed.
Iranian exiles and the Iranian government can make for a combustible combination, as a spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry discovered after an address by the country's president to the United Nations during this week's General Assembly.
Mr. Tyson has been praised for his combustible humor, but the show has been criticized for lacking structure and for allowing its subject to spend too much time defending his past sins.
As much affection as the director holds for these combustible Sicilian peasants, he recognizes their potential for mob violence and their atavistic sexual code.
They share a gimlet eye for the veteran party-giver's desperate perkiness, for the combustible chemistry among ill-assorted guests and the shifting ratio between alcohol consumption and emotional temperature.
