Both Uses
combustion
in
The Great Fire
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- On the day the fire started, over 55 miles of pine-block streets and 600 miles of wooden sidewalks bound the 23,000 acres of the city in a highly combustible knot.†
p. 19.8 *combustible = able to burn easily
- To the roar which the simple process of combustion always makes, magnified here to so grand an extent, was added the crash of falling buildings and the constant explosions of stores of oil and other like material.†
p. 62.3combustion = the act of burning
Definitions:
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(1)
(combustion) the act of burning
or metaphorically:
a state of violent disturbance and excitement - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)