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  2. Fire triangle - Wikipedia

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    The fire triangle. The fire triangle or combustion triangle is a simple model for understanding the necessary ingredients for most fires. [1] The triangle illustrates the three elements a fire needs to ignite: heat, fuel, and an oxidizing agent (usually oxygen). [2] A fire naturally occurs when the elements are present and combined in the right ...

  3. Flammability diagram - Wikipedia

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    Flammability diagram for methane. Flammability diagrams show the control of flammability in mixtures of fuel, oxygen and an inert gas, typically nitrogen.Mixtures of the three gasses are usually depicted in a triangular diagram, known as a ternary plot.

  4. Ternary plot - Wikipedia

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    A ternary plot, ternary graph, triangle plot, simplex plot, or Gibbs triangle is a barycentric plot on three variables which sum to a constant. [1] It graphically depicts the ratios of the three variables as positions in an equilateral triangle .

  5. Combustion - Wikipedia

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    The flames caused as a result of a fuel undergoing combustion (burning) Air pollution abatement equipment provides combustion control for industrial processes.. Combustion, or burning, [1] is a high-temperature exothermic redox chemical reaction between a fuel (the reductant) and an oxidant, usually atmospheric oxygen, that produces oxidized, often gaseous products, in a mixture termed as smoke.

  6. Combustibility and flammability - Wikipedia

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    A non-combustible material [17] is a substance that does not ignite, burn, support combustion, or release flammable vapors when subject to fire or heat, in the form in which it is used and under conditions anticipated. Any solid substance complying with either of two sets of passing criteria listed in Section 8 of ASTM E 136 when the substance ...

  7. Glossary of firelighting - Wikipedia

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    See also References A amadou Main article: amadou A spongy, flammable substance prepared from bracket fungi. arson Main article: arson The crime of intentionally or maliciously lighting structures, wildland areas, cars or other property on fire. It is the deliberate setting of fires for personal, monetary or political gain. auto reignition Main article: Auto reignition A process used in gas ...

  8. Alchemical symbol - Wikipedia

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    Alchemical symbols were used to denote chemical elements and compounds, as well as alchemical apparatus and processes, until the 18th century. Although notation was partly standardized, style and symbol varied between alchemists.

  9. Fireproof banknote - Wikipedia

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    By igniting a paper banknote completely soaked with 50% alcohol solution, the alcohol (which is the fuel in the fire triangle) is combusted into carbon dioxide and water vapour. Contrarily water is heated up, with some being evaporated as it absorbs energy from the combustion of alcohol. [2]