Assertion: salamander | /r/CapableOf | put out fire
Facets:
value: by its contact
type: OTHER
value: in the same way
type: MANNER
value: on contact
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: 8 Salamanders Can Put Out Fires
text: The association of the salamander with fire appeared first in Ancient Greece, where Pliny the Elder writes in his Natural History that "A salamander is so cold that it puts out fire on contact.
text: It is so chilly that it puts out fire by its contact, in the same way as ice does.
text: Pliny the Elder, a Roman naturalist and natural philosopher from the first century A.D., purported that salamanders were so cold they put out fires.
text: According to some writers, the milky substance that a salamander exudes when frightened and which makes its skin moist gave rise to the idea that the salamander could withstand any heat and even put out fires.