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1 No animal could live in an atmosphere which could not support combustion .
2 You see it is not combustible, nor does it support combustion .
3 It is uninflammable, and does not support combustion or animal respiration.
4 Fresh air is necessary to support combustion as well as life.
5 The air was so rarefied that there was scarcely oxygen enough in it to support combustion .
6 Yes; because enough air, or oxygen must go through the mesh to support combustion of the flame itself.
7 It does not support combustion ; and it does not burn readily unless mixed with oxygen, when it burns with a pale yellowish-green flame.
8 "Oh, yes; I know, there must be oxygen to support combustion , so that the carbon is merely heated up?"
9 "Do you mean a lamp that will not explode the gas, although it has enough oxygen to ' support combustion , ' as you say?"
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