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


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