Nancy Gibbs

Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.

American Journalist

Carl Sagan

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

American Scientist

Queen Rania of Jordan

Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.

Jordanian Royalty

Homaro Cantu

From a very young age, I liked to take apart things. All of my Christmas gifts would wind up in a million pieces. I actually recall taking apart my dad's lawnmower three times to understand how combustible engines work.

American Inventor

Chuck Hagel

When you're dealing in situations that are uncontrollable and combustible, you try to stabilize the situation as quickly as you can and then work toward and work out toward democratic reform.

American Politician

Juan Williams

I support gun control. But speaking honestly about the combustible mix of race and guns may be more important to stopping the slaughter in minority communities than any new gun-control laws.

Albert Wynn

Fuel cell vehicles run on clean-burning hydrogen and are three times more efficient than the traditional combustible engine.

Ambrose Bierce

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

Use 'combustible' when discussing safety to highlight fire risks.

Safety Hazard

In technical or scientific content, 'combustible' is used to classify materials.

Technical Contexts

'Combustible' sometimes emphasizes the potential danger more than 'flammable'.

Emphasis on Risk

'Combustible' as a noun often refers to energy sources like fuel.

Source of Energy

Emphasizes the use of combustibles to produce heat in various applications.

Heat Production

 Your match adds enough energy to activate the exothermic reaction of combustion, converting the high-energy combustible material in the wood to lower energy carbon dioxide and water. Entropy also increases and helps the reaction along

What triggers a chemical...

 from those air holes and what's happening is that the wood is breaking down in the heat of the fire and giving off lots of gases and vapors and smoke which is itself combustible and we then reintroduce oxygen in fact hot gas to

How to rebuild the world...

 Chris So, some combustible material there. Whether in this audience or people elsewhere in the world, hearing some of this, may well be doing the screaming-with-rage thing, after as well, some of them.

Science can answer moral...

 the capsule sits upon 25 tons highly combustible ethyl alcohol and liquid oxygen powering a rocket eye engine that