Usage of "combustible matter"

ruso

вид топлива

portugués

gás combustível

español

carburante

catalán

energia combustible

Any material that stores energy that can later be extracted, in presence of a oxidizer or a catalyser, or under the effect of a tool, but which is not conserved after the reaction.

fuel

carburante

Uso de combustible matter en inglés

We place, then, food in our stomachs as so much combustible matter. 
 Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, an... 

And thus, and thus, does the blood, when combustible matter fails him! 
 The History of a Mouthful of Bread / And its effect on the organ... 

From the loss the percentage of volatile combustible matter may be readily calculated. 
 Steam, Its Generation and Use 

The heap of combustible matter suddenly blazed up, lighting all the fields around them. 
 In School and Out; or, The Conquest of Richard Grant. 

Having been built of wood, it was, in 1812, a pile of combustible matter. 
 Life of Tecumseh, and of His Brother the Prophet / With a Histor... 

Shall we term it knowledge in fire, that makes it to consume combustible matter? 
 Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books / with Introductions, Not... 

Society was one vast mass of combustible matter. 
 Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 

So then I says to myself, 'She's deposited some o' her combustible matter in Mr. Blake's room.' 
 The Weapons of Mystery 

There remained combustible matter between us. 
 Desert places: a novel of terror 

Hither she moved her treasure and most valuable effects, covering them with torches, fagots, and other combustible matter. 
 Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome / ... 

Letters and telegrams and morning journals lay on the breakfast-table, awaiting the members of the household with combustible matter. 
 Celt and Saxon — Volume 1 

The question set on fire by him will never be extinguished until the combustible matter has gone to ashes. 
 Miscellaneous Prose 

A beautiful earthworm economy of the last dregs of combustible matter in any kind of refuse can thus be attained. 
 Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887 

Thus, fire ceases to burn combustible matter, as soon as sufficient water is thrown into it, to arrest its progress. 
 The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical Wor... 

This refuge only remained, Sedan; Sedan encumbered with carts, with wagons, with carriages, with hospital huts; a heap of combustible matter. 
 The History of a Crime / The Testimony of an Eye-Witness 

But he was seized by my guardian and cast into a combustible matter which was by his infernal electricity instantly kindled. 
 Secret Enemies of True Republicanism / Most important developmen... 