(June 14, 2019 at 1:41 pm)Drich Wrote:(June 14, 2019 at 12:30 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: '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
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