combustible
Definitions of combustible
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a substance that can be consumed to produce energysynonyms: carburanttypes:gas-oila heavy mineral oil used as fuel in diesel enginescombustible fossilefuel consisting of the remains of organisms preserved in rocks in the earth's crust with high carbon and hydrogen contentmazouta petroleum product used for fuelessence, gaza volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engineskérosènea flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heatersbois de chauffagewood used for fuelcharbonfossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous periodparaffine(British usage) kerosinegaz naturela fossil fuel in the gaseous state; used for cooking and heating homespétrole bruta dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbonsbûchethe large log at the back of a hearth fire
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