The term "spontaneous combustion" is used when a substance smoulders or inflames apparently without the intervention of any external heat or light; in such cases, as, for example, in heaps of cotton-waste soaked in oil, the oxidation has proceeded slowly, but steadily, for some time, until the heat evolved has raised the mass to the temperature of ignition. [Please select]
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There is a fever which has caught hold of this country, which blazes in the towns and smoulders in the country places, and that is the fever of money-making. [Please select]
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This is the trap; this is the snare, This is the false, enchanting light, And when it smoulders into night, How can each know the other is there. [Please select]
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Fire smoulders and creeps at first, it may be, but when it has got the mastery, and bursts into flames, it flashes to its work and completes it quickly. [Please select]
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