Incombustible

As the oil spreads across the surface, it mixes with the water into an incombustible sludge with the consistency of mayonnaise. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Rock dust is incombustible material and is used to coat coal mines to reduce the chances of explosions. ❋ Unknown (2010)

At the moment when she makes her entrance into this history which we are relating, she was an antique virtue, an incombustible prude, with one of the sharpest noses, and one of the most obtuse minds that it is possible to see. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A plant or vegetable consumed to ashes to a contemplative and school-philosopher seems utterly destroyed, and the form to have taken his leave for ever; but to a sensible artist the forms are not perished, but withdrawn into their incombustible part, where they lie secure from the action of that devouring element. ❋ Unknown (2007)

For mother was a special creature (as I suppose we all are), being the warmest of the warm, when fired at the proper corner; and yet, if taken at the wrong point, you would say she was incombustible. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

This is the incombustible wood put down by Paganel in his list of Australian products. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Everything — framework, hull, houses, cabins — were made of straw-paper turned hard as metal by compression, and — what was not to be despised in an apparatus flying at great heights — incombustible. ❋ Unknown (2003)

They pushed forward galleries formed of hurdles of green reeds, and oaken semicircles like enormous shields gliding on three wheels; the workers were sheltered in little huts covered with raw hides and stuffed with wrack; the catapults and ballistas were protected by rope curtains which had been steeped in vinegar to render them incombustible. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Therefore it is called Asbeston, which is as much to say as incombustible. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Various methods have been devised to cover thatched roofs with an incombustible coating. ❋ Unknown (1997)

Apart from sandwiching the roof covering between two incombustible layers there is no way of making them completely fire proof. ❋ Unknown (1997)

The roof may be protected by having an incombustible ceiling fixed to the underside of the rafters. ❋ Unknown (1997)

In order to reduce its flammability, one uses soaking substances to make the reed or straw incombustible to some degree, as well as sprinkler systems in order to protect the roof from flames. ❋ Unknown (1996)

If any tablets, capsules or liquid drugs are enclosed in incombustible packing, that packing should first be removed before incinerating the drugs. ❋ Unknown (1993)

In addition, the underside of thatch can be protected by fixing an incombustible board ceiling to the rafters. ❋ Unknown (1988)

He took out his weapon although he was unable to determine whether its firepower could be adjusted, hoping the plastic material of the boat was incombustible. ❋ Voltz, William (1976)

I laughed at the idea of hazard from such a source, when the building was one mass of stone, and, of course, as I conceived, incombustible. ❋ Various (N/A)

Not only will it fire the gaseous contents out of the dirigible, but it has an explosive effect upon striking an incombustible portion of the aircraft, such as the machinery, propellers or car, when it will cause sufficient damage to throw the craft out of action. ❋ Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot (N/A)