combustibility

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

COMBUSTIBILITY, noun The quality of taking fire and burning; the quality of a substance which admits the action of fire upon it; capacity of being burnt, or combined with oxygen. The quality of throwing out heat and light, in the rapid combination of its substance with another body.
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