Spontaneous Combustion Definition

Spontaneous Combustion Sentence Examples

• She was asked to open for country music star Tim McGraw's Spontaneous Combustion Tour.

• Sublimed sulphur also results from the spontaneous combustion of coal seams containing pyrites.

• In some mining districts the coal is liable to spontaneous combustion.

• Prairie fires or spontaneous combustion have ignited many coal seams. Some have already burnt out; others still emit smoke and sulphurous fumes from the crevices in the hillsides, and through the fissures may be seen the glowing coal and rock.

• The property of the semi-drying oils to absorb oxygen is accelerated by spreading such oils over a large surface, notably over woollen or cotton fibres, when absorption proceeds so rapidly that frequently spontaneous combustion will ensue.