Catches-fire Sentence Examples

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  • Place the end of the paper into the flame until it catches fire.

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  • Dry stannous oxide, if touched with a glowing body, catches fire and burns to stannic oxide, Sn02.

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  • If zinc be heated to near its boiling-point, it catches fire and burns with a brilliant light into its powdery white oxide, which forms a reek in the air (lana philosophica, " philosopher's wool").

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  • The powdery metal burns readily in air; the crystalline metal requires to be heated in an oxyhydrogen flame before it catches fire.

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  • First the engineer's coffee maker catches fire on the bathroom vanity.

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  • First the engineer 's coffee maker catches fire on the bathroom vanity.

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