Catches-fire Definition

Catches-fire Sentence Examples

• Place the end of the paper into the flame until it catches fire.

• Dry stannous oxide, if touched with a glowing body, catches fire and burns to stannic oxide, Sn02.

• If zinc be heated to near its boiling-point, it catches fire and burns with a brilliant light into its powdery white oxide, which forms a reek in the air (lana philosophica, " philosopher's wool").

• The powdery metal burns readily in air; the crystalline metal requires to be heated in an oxyhydrogen flame before it catches fire.

• First the engineer's coffee maker catches fire on the bathroom vanity.