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fuel
HSK 4
to ignite / to combust / to burn / combustion / flaming
HSK 4
to ignite / to set on fire / aflame
HSK 5
fuel gas (coal gas, natural gas, methane etc)
HSK 7-9
fuel oil
HSK 7-9
to light / to set off (firecrackers etc)
HSK 7-9
deflagrating spoon / combustion spoon
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to burn / to ignite / to light / fig. to spark off (hopes) / to start (debate) / to raise (hopes)
coal fuel
fuel consumption
inflammable
(nuclear energy) spent fuel
spontaneous combustion
to deflagrate
lit. ashes burn once more (idiom); fig. sb lost returns to have influence / sth malevolent returns to haunt one
internal combustion engine
internal combustion (engine)
to ignite; to set fire to; to light / (chemistry) ignition point; combustion point
to burn one's eyebrows / fig. desperately serious situation
gas turbine
fossil fuels / oil and coal
fire resistant
fossil fuel
fuel cycle
flammable substance
nuclear fuel
flammable / flammability
to burn without flame; to smolder
fuel oil
biofuel
Molotov cocktail
fire bomb / incendiary device
clathrate hydrates
alternative fuel
incendiary agent
burning with no flame / fire beneath the surface / hidden combustion
Dipamkara Buddha, the former Buddha before Shakyamuni Buddha and the bringer of lights
nuclear fuel reprocessing
(nuclear energy) spent fuel rods
automobile
renewable fuel
to ignite / to start (a fire) / (fig.) to spark (debate, conflict etc)
flammable articles
burning beanstalks to cook the beans (idiom); to cause internecine strife
to set off fire crackers
fuel pellets
fuel cell
gas fired power station
fuel tank (of a ship)
coal burning boiler
to cause to explode / to fire / to set off
lit. the fire burns one's eyebrows (idiom); fig. desperate situation / extreme emergency
phlogiston theory
to ignite / to light / fig. to spark off (hopes, controversy, flames of revolution)
to burn incense


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