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  2. Combustibility and flammability - Wikipedia

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    Take wood as an example. Finely divided wood dust can undergo explosive flames and produce a blast wave. A piece of paper (made from wood) catches on fire quite easily. A heavy oak desk is much harder to ignite, even though the wood fibre is the same in all three materials.

  3. Gas explosion - Wikipedia

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    A gas explosion is the ignition of a mixture of air and flammable gas, typically from a gas leak. [1] In household accidents, the principal explosive gases are those used for heating or cooking purposes such as natural gas , methane , propane , butane .

  4. Fire class - Wikipedia

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    A fire class is a system of categorizing fire with regard to the type of material and fuel for combustion.Class letters are often assigned to the different types of fire, but these differ between territories; there are separate standards for the United States (NFPA 10 Chapter 5.2.1-5.2.5), Europe (DIN EN2 Classification of fires (European Standard) ISO3941 Classification of fires ...

  5. Liquid fuel - Wikipedia

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    Gasoline is the most widely used liquid fuel. Gasoline, as it is known in United States and Canada, or petrol virtually everywhere else, is made of hydrocarbon molecules (compounds that contain hydrogen and carbon only) forming aliphatic compounds, or chains of carbons with hydrogen atoms attached.

  6. Wood gas - Wikipedia

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    A wood gasifier takes wood chips, sawdust, charcoal, coal, rubber or similar materials as fuel and burns these incompletely in a fire box, producing wood gas, solid ash and soot, the latter of which have to be removed periodically from the gasifier. The wood gas can then be filtered for tars and soot/ash particles, cooled and directed to an ...

  7. Wood Chips Are the Secret to Healthy Soil and Plants ... - AOL

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    Wood chips are an easy and affordable way to give your garden a boost. They're commonly used as mulch to suppress weeds, improve water retention, and reduce soil erosion.Beyond mulch, wood chips ...

  8. Wood fuel - Wikipedia

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    The use of wood as a fuel source for heating is much older than civilization and is assumed to have been used by Neanderthals. Today, burning of wood is the largest use of energy derived from a solid fuel biomass. Wood fuel can be used for cooking and heating, and occasionally for fueling steam engines and steam turbines that generate electricity.

  9. Frito-Lay employee reveals why bags of chips have so much air ...

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    "The reason for the nitrogen and chip ratio is to keep the chips safe during transportation," Aragon said. If the bags were crushed, the chips would be broken in stores.