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flashpoint

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
flashpoint/ˈflaʃpɔɪnt/

▶noun

1 a point or place at which anger or violence flares up.

2 Chemistry the temperature at which a particular organic compound gives off sufficient vapour to ignite in air.

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