inflammableness
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
inflammable + -ness
Noun[edit]
inflammableness (uncountable)
- The quality of being inflammable; inflammability.
- 1661, Robert Boyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-physical Doubts & Paradoxes, […], London: […] J. Cadwell for J. Crooke, […], →OCLC:
- For , they ascribe to salt , tastes , and the power of coagulation ; to sulphur , as well odours as inflammableness ; and some of them ascribe to mercury , colours ; as all of them do effumability
References[edit]
- “inflammableness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.