Crossword-Solution: INCOMBUSTIBILITY 16 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 27

This hood was of a waterproof silk, coated with powdered aluminum, that metal being used because of its semi-incombustibility.

Such a type of car, in many respects, presented desirable features for subway work as representing the ultimate of absolute incombustibility.

This substance gave out an elastic fluid at the positive wire, which was ascertained to be oxygen, and at the negative wire, small globules of a very high metallic lustre, very similar in appearance to mercury; thus proving that potash, which had hitherto been considered as a simple incombustible body, was in fact a metallic oxyd; and that its incombustibility proceeded from its being already combined with oxygen.

From the circumstance of their incombustibility it was conjectured, with some plausibility, that they might possibly be bodies that had been already burnt.

This possibility made the Devil furious, for it was plausible enough--yet that Gud chap had seemed such a fair and simple sort! Half a dozen times the Devil started to go up and see about it--yet, had he not pledged his own incombustibility on his keeping away from the sphere after the first visit? He had been a simple fool, and here he was with a fully equipped hell on his hands and a big payroll to meet and the best of his helpers deserting right and left, because they were bored with idleness.