The meaning of flammable is able to be easy ignited; inflammable is the antonym of flammable.
It really, really, will not burn. Inflammable means that something will not burn. Flammable means that it will burn. Understanding the confusion with this word in particular, most trucking companies carrying non-flammable materials will now indicate this with the word non-flammable instead of the admittedly strange 'inflammable'. So "highly inflammable" is a highly suspect description.
Sodium itself is not flammable. But if it has an ionic bond or in other compounds it can be.
Flammability is an example of the chemical property.
If the distillate alcohol is flammable what does it tell you about the purity of the substance?
Some are flammable and some are not. This depends on the chemical properties of the individual substance. Nonflammable pure substance include helium, water, and gold. Flammable pure substances include hydrogen, hexane, and magnesium.
Flammable and inflammable are the same thing. Sawdust is flammable
Flammable AND inflammable both mean that something can easily catch fire. Gasoline is a flammable liquid, and is inflammable. Something that will NOT burn is nonflammable.
Nonflammable is something that won't catch on fire.
flammable and inflammable mean the same thing. In which case carbon is both.
Inflammable is used in England where Americans would say flammable.
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Antonyms for inflammable (able to burn) are noncombustible, incombustible, or nonflammable (non-flammable).(*The words flammable and inflammable have the same general meaning of combustible.)
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The substance is said to be either flammable, inflammable, combustible.