What are inflammable substences?
what is flammable and inflammable ? Inflammable and flammable both mean “combustible.” Inflammable is the older by about 200 years. Flammable now has certain technical uses, particularly as a warning on vehicles carrying combustible materials, because of a belief that some might interpret the intensive prefix in- of inflammable as a negative prefix and thus think the word means “noncombustible.” Inflammable is the word more usually used in nontechnical and figurative contexts hazardous substances and products such as solvents, dis solvents, stain removers, paint, varnish, adhesives, weed killer, etc. Many of these products are toxic, cause skin irritation and are often highly flammable. When you use them, they give off invisible but highly inflammable vapors. Flash points below 100 °F (38 °C) are regulated in the United States by OSHA as potential workplace hazards. The vapour pressure is an important parameter in determining the ease of ignition. The higher the vapour pressure, the mo