flashpoints in English
noun
1
a place, event, or time at which trouble, such as violence or anger, flares up.
the flashpoint of the conflagration is just blocks away
2
the temperature at which a particular organic compound gives off sufficient vapor to ignite in air.
They had routinely heated paraffin oil with a flashpoint of 175 degrees centigrade in its baking tins to stop pies sticking.
noun
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1. Vukovar was one of the early flashpoints in the former Yugoslavia.
2. Certain of the variables included in this model augment the flashpoints approach to industrial confrontation.
3. 10 The flashpoints model is therefore inapplicable to this form of disorder and other explanations are therefore necessary.