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Flammable materials can be found as solids, liquids, or gases. Flammable solids can be classified in three categories: desensitized explosives, self-reactive materials, and readily combustible solids. These are generally non-explosive but may ignite when exposed to friction, moisture, heat retained from processing, or a spontaneous chemical change.
These metals are very reactive (they are in chemical terms strong reductors) which mean that they are very eager to react with oxygen. Excellent flammable material one might say. However what happens in reality is that the atoms on the outer edge of a piece of such metal react very quickly with oxygen in the air. This forms a layer of oxidation very rapidly and this oxidised layer shields the rest of the metal atoms from oxygen.