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burnable

adjective as in combustible

adjective as in flammable

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adjective as in inflammable

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If all burnable material on the ground has been removed, a fire should run out of fuel when it reaches a fireline.

Question marks dot the landscape of burnable bushes and pushable boulders, with entire regions left unrevealed.

“Use good judgment and don’t light a fire close to burnable vegetation or overhanging branches,” Starkovich said.

Across burnable lands globally, the annual number of flammable nighttime hours increased by 110 hours over the past four decades — allowing five additional nights when flammability does not cease, the study stated.

A statistically significant decline in such nights happened in 59% of burnable lands worldwide.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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