noun
definition
A material that is capable of burning.
Examples of combustibles in a Sentence
Georg Ernst Stahl, following in some measure the views held by Johann Joachim Becher, as, for instance, that all combustibles contain a " sulphur " (which notion is itself of older date than Becher's terra pinguis), regarded all substances as capable of resolution into two components,.
Comestibles, raw materials, and combustibles form the greater part of the imports, but this great manufactory also imports a considerable quantity of foreign manufactured goods.
It thus happened that in the earlier treatises on phlogistic chemistry organic substances were grouped with all combustibles.
Hydrogen burns with a pale blue non-luminous flame, but will not support the combustion of ordinary combustibles.
Keep all combustibles and trash away from the furnace.