Fire research abstracts and reviews: Volume 13, 1971

National Research Council

doi:10.17226/27046

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/27046

Chapters		skim
Front Matter	i-viii
An Introduction To Combustion Chemistry	1-8
Chemical Thermodynamics and Fire Problems	9-34
The Role of Chemistry in Fire Problems-gas Phase Combustion Kinetics	35-51
Condensed Phase Combustion Chemistry	52-67
Contributions of Analytical Chemistry To Fire Problems	68-83
The Chemistry of Fire Resistant Materials and Suppression	84-115
Summary	116-120
A Chemists Summary	121-124
Comment	125-125
A Relationship Between Fire Grading and Building Design and Contents	126-126
The Ignition of Plastic Materials in Dwellings	127-127
The Fire Propagation Test as a Measure of Fire Spread Correlation With Full Scale Fires in Corridors	128-128
Extinction of Laboratory Hydrocarbon Fires With a Synthetic Foam	129-129
The Application of High Expansion Foam To Wood Crib Fires	130-130
The Vibrations To Which Dry Powder Extinguishers May Be Subjected During Storage	131-131
The Number of Sprinkler Heads Opening in Fires	132-132
Extinction of Industrial Fires by Foams	133-133
Coupled Gas Chromatography-mass Spectrometry and Its Application To the Thermal Decomposition Products of Cellulose	134-134
The Effect of Flame Retardants on Thermal Degradation of a Cellulose in Nitrogen	135-136
A Preliminary Study of the Thermal Decomposition of Polyurethane Foams by Elemental Ultramicroanalysis	137-137
Radiation Temperatures of Forest Fires	138-138
Thermal Measurements on Unprotected Steel Columns Exposed To Wood and Petrol Fires	139-139
Measurements of the Dynamics of Structural Fires	140-140
Calibration of Surface Wind Speed Observations in Canada	141-142
An Association Between Fire Spread and Casualties in Fire	143-143
Fire Deaths in the First Quarter of 1971	144-144
Modeling the Dynamic Behavior of Building Fires	145-145
Fires in Hospitals	146-146
Large Fires During 1970	147-147
Auto Diallers in the United Kingdom	148-148
Fire Fighting Operations in Hamburg Germany During World War Ii	149-149
Flammable Fabrics Data Sources an Information System Printout	150-150
Department of the Environment and Fire Research Offices Committee Joint Fire Research Organization List of Reports Published 1958 To March 1971	151-151
References To Scientific Literature on Fire Part Xx 1969	152-152
Record Property Conservation Engineering and Management-factory Mutual Engineering Corporation	153-153
Some Measurements and Observation on the Photodynamics of Burnt Areas in Bas-languedoc	154-163
International Symposium and 15th Nordic Fire Protection Day 1969-proceedings of Lectures and Discussions on Plastics Fire Corrosion-swedish Fire Protection Association	164-164
The Fourteenth Symposium International on Combustion-pennsylvania State University University Park Pennsylvania August 20-25 1972	165-173

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