Random Thoughts

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

'Flammable' and 'inflammable' mean the same thing.  Boy, did I learn THAT the hard way.

Boru

the etymology shows inflammable was from the latin as the cause of said fire, while flammable was coined later from a similar word means to catch fire or is able to burn.


Now it seems inflammable is to catch fire easy. while flammable means to be able to catch fire.

like a gallon of gasoline, verse a 300 pound oak stump in the ground.

The gas would be inflammable as a single static spark could set a whole tanker truck ablaze

while the stump would burn it just won't burn easy or completely/with a small source of ignition.

Thanks for a lecture no one asked for.

Boru