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spontaneous combustion  

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  • Spontaneous combustion occurs when an object self-ignites. The cause may be chemical, as when lithium oxidizes explosively in water, or biological, as when a haystack catches fire due to heat generated from bacterial fermentation. [Source: Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience; Spontaneous Combustion]

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