Should you be careful with a solvent that’s inflammable? Absolutely. The trouble with flammable and inflammable is that they mean the same thing. The prefix in- is not the Latin negative prefix in-, which is related to the English un- and appears in such words as indecent and inglorious. The in- in inflammable is an intensive prefix that is derived from the Latin preposition in. This prefix also appears in the word enflame. But many people are ignorant of all this and conclude that, since flammable means “combustible,” inflammable must mean “not flammable” or “incombustible.” Therefore, for clarity’s sake, you should use only flammable to give warnings.
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