What's the difference between amadou and flammable?
Amadou
Definition:
(n.) A spongy, combustible substance, prepared from fungus (Boletus and Polyporus) which grows on old trees; German tinder; punk. It has been employed as a styptic by surgeons, but its common use is as tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking it in a strong solution of niter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo on Friday pleaded for foreign help to preserve the territorial integrity of the former French colony, a major gold and cotton producer.
(2) In fact the then president, Amadou Toumani Touré, known as "ATT" more out of derision than any sense of affection, was viewed as deeply corrupt and incapable of delivering the changes that Mali – still one of the five least-developed countries in the world – needed.
(3) The other officials sanctioned were Ismael Bhamjee of Botswana, who was handed a four-year ban, Amadou Diakite of Mali and Ahongalu Fusimalohi of Tonga who were suspended for three years and Tunisian official Slim Aloulou for two.
(4) Mali's coup leader, Captain Amadou Sanogo, responded to the threat of sanctions on Friday by saying he planned to hold elections and rapidly return the country to its established order.
(5) One of the best things I've ever seen at Glastonbury was Amadou and Mariam on the Pyramid stage in 2009."
(6) Captain Amadou Sanogo added that he would hold a national convention to agree a transitional government which would organise free and fair elections, but he did not announce a timetable.
(7) It was also a catchphrase that came to define Positive Black Soul, the hip-hop group that Awadi started with Amadou "Doug E Tee" Barry in the late 1980s.
(8) Africa Stop Ebola was recorded before the release of Sir Bob’s third rehash of the charity single , and includes well-known African musicians such as Tiken Jah Fakoly from the Ivory Coast and Malian artists Amadou and Mariam, Salif Keita and Oumou Sangare.
(9) During the campaign the leader of the junta that toppled Touré last year, Captain Amadou Sanogo, came out in support of Keita.
(10) Africa rising Since the Arab revolutions of 2011 there have been at least six coups and coup attempts in Africa: Democratic Republic of the Congo, 27 February 2011 An attempted coup against the president, Joseph Kabila Mali, 22 March 2012 Military coup ousts the president, Amadou Toumani Touré.
(11) "The same thing is going to happen again – it is already happening," said Amadou Diop, whose office is located near the US embassy in Dakar.
(12) Three important changes have already occurred in Bamako: First – and strikingly – even Captain Amadou Haya Sanogo, who led the coup in March and who still holds a great deal of political power, has welcomed the arrival of French troops.
(13) The adoption of this law aims essentially to protect the frontiers of our country,” said the justice minister, Marou Amadou.
(14) He didn't fight the fake consensus … that prevailed under [the previous] President Amadou Toumani Touré, only to restore the same system," says his long-standing comrade Albert Bourgi.
(15) Amadou Aly Kane, a human rights lawyer, believes the country's parajuristes , while not unique in Africa, played a crucial role in improving access to justice for ordinary people.
(16) The African Union has suspended Mali following Thursday's military coup, which deposed long-time president Amadou Toumani Touré.
(17) Those represented by family members included Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old shot who was dead by a white police officer in Ferguson in August; Garner, 43, who was killed in July after a police officer on Staten Island placed him in a banned chokehold; Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old shot dead by police in Cleveland in November ; Akai Gurley, a 28-year-old shot dead in Brooklyn last month ; Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old shot dead by a neighborhood watch leader in 2012 in Florida; and Amadou Diallo , who was shot 41 times by New York police officers in 1999.
(18) The soldier heading the rebellion, Captain Amadou Haya Sanogo, gave an interview to Malian state television saying that Touré is "doing well and is safe".
(19) His coup reversed 21 years of democracy, and sent President Amadou Toumani Touré into hiding.
(20) "Bhamjee said … Issa Hayatou of Cameroon, Slim Aloulou of Tunisia and Amadou Diakite of the Ivory Coast had each been paid for their votes by Morocco when it was bidding against South Africa in the contest for the 2010 World Cup."
Flammable
Definition:
(a.) Inflammable.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Monasteries and convents face greater risks than other buildings in terms of fire safety," the article said, adding that many are built with flammable materials and located far away from professional fire brigades.
(2) The authors consider that this device increases safety during this potentially hazardous procedure by eliminating the flammable polyvinyl chloride endotracheal tube and cottonoid packings most frequently used during this procedure.
(3) It is probable that the single factor most important to the decline, in our experience with these injuries, is lower fabric flammability but, because our data may not be representative, corroboration is needed before one can exclude factors such as altered garment design, fire safety-related practices at home, or changing patterns of hospital referral.
(4) The results of two separate tests and corresponding photographs are presented to verify the flammability.
(5) Products frequently associated with burn injuries included those involved in food preparation and consumption, flammable liquids, and clothing.
(6) The heat of combustion per mole of gas mixture at the lean limit is a reliable thermochemical criterion for the flammability of organic fuels with comparable reactivities.
(7) The O2 index of flammability is the minimum O2 fraction in nitrogen that will support candle-like flame using a standard ignition source.
(8) Modified lightweight passenger breathing apparatus, upgraded flight attendant and aircrew portable breathing apparatus, floor level guidance to exits, less flammable and toxic interior materials, improved passenger evacuation information, tailored airport emergency response procedures, and upgraded toilet smoke detector equipment are examples.
(9) "I see nothing amusing about flammable liquid existing in the court where there are so many people and just one door.
(10) Season two crafted complex characters racked with existential ambivalence – heroines marked for the abyss, fragile, flammable outcasts and desolate prodigies, all of whose private pain was as palpable as the crimson bloodbath head witch Evelyn Poole soaks in.
(11) You can find them at Macy’s in the flammable section.’” There were more digs at Trump to come in Obama’s 2012 and 2015 speeches to the dinner, and continued references to the birther row in 2013 and 2014, but if he does return to the subject this year, it is likely to take a subtler form than what some might view as class-baiting by Myers.
(12) Scald prevention, high-risk environments (home and recreational), high-risk populations (male and natives) and unsafe practices with flammable liquids (petrol in particular) should be emphasized in paediatric burn prevention programmes.
(13) Although dimethyl sulfoxide is not highly flammable, normal safety precautions used with any flammable solvent are the minimal requirements for safe use of this drug.
(14) We conclude that industrial design should include safeguards which isolate workers from flammable materials, including isolation of explosive materials from working areas, alarm systems to detect leakage of flammable agents, protective barriers and shields, and the regulation and institution of flame and flash-resistant clothing.
(15) This procedure has the advantage of not requiring derivitization of non-volatile acids and provides the convenience of a technique which does not require the use of flammable gasses, while allowing the identification of at least 18 different acids from the same chromatographic analysis.
(16) In this form of welding, a mixture of powdered metals, including tungsten carbide and cobalt, is heated by ignition of a flammable gas and propelled from the end of the "gun" at high temperature and velocity to form a welded metal coating.
(17) But last week we saw that our streets too are highly flammable.
(18) Flammability is a valid method of comparing safety of various endotracheal tube materials.
(19) The cost of culture materials was reduced considerably, and no toxic or flammable solvents needed to be used.
(20) The oxidant N2O index of flammability for esophageal stethoscopes is 0.430, for Salem sump nasogastric tubes 0.430, for enteric feeding tubes 0.375, for plastic nasopharyngeal airways 0.415, and for rubber nasopharyngeal airways 0.366.