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Topic: TEMPERATURE

flashpoint

 noun
     
flash‧point [countable]
1 a place where trouble or violence might easily develop suddenly and be hard to control:
Hebron has been a flashpoint for years.
2 [usually singular] technicalTMT the lowest temperature at which a liquid such as oil will produce enough gas to burn if a flame is put near it
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