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flame
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See: deflagrate


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WHEN I was a child, one of my favorite books was called ``Catastrophes,'' a coffee-table softcover with a huge picture of the Hindenburg bursting into flames gracing the cover.
When the bus Ozeki is in flips over, she stops the vehicle from bursting into flames.
And of course, for curators, there are all the electric motors and electromagnets: devices that need a good deal of attention, and which are prone to stopping unpredictably and occasionally emitting sparks and bursting into flames.
 
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