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In the beginning half of the 20th century it became apparent that the use of acidic wood-pulp paper, common since the 1850s, was causing paper materials to slowly burn. This has been referred to as the slow fire. A statement submitted to the House of Representatives estimated that there were 80 million brittle books in North American libraries ...
A slow fire is a term used in library and information science to describe paper embrittlement resulting from acid decay. The term is taken from the title of Terry Sanders 's 1987 film Slow Fires: On the preservation of the human record.
Smouldering combustion in glowing embers of barbecue coal briquettes. Smouldering (British English) or smoldering (American English; see spelling differences) is the slow, flameless form of combustion, sustained by the heat evolved when oxygen directly attacks the surface of a condensed-phase fuel. [1]
Novelization of the cancelled game of the same name; incorporates elements of the game Tex Murphy: Overseer, itself largely a retelling of the first game, Mean Streets: The Dig: The Dig: Alan Dean Foster: ISBN 978-4073073598: Aspect The Lords of Midnight: The Lords of Midnight: Drew Wagar ISBN 978-1-912053-92-6 ISBN 978-1-912053-91-9: Fantastic ...
The area in and downhill of burn scars can be susceptible to flash flooding and debris flow for several years following a fire as it takes the land time to recover and plants to grow.
The player controls a fireman going through a burning skyscraper to save victims and put out the fires. The game was produced under a licence obtained from 20th Century Fox by Quaker Oats, the parent company of US Games, for the video game rights to the movie of the same name. [3]
Emergency (video game series) Emergency (video game) Emergency 2: The Ultimate Fight for Life; Emergency 3: Mission Life; Emergency 4: Global Fighters for Life; Emergency 5; Emergency Fire Response; Emergency Heroes; Emergency Mayhem
About midway through Christine Murphy’s debut novel, “Notes on Surviving the Fire,” her protagonist, Sarah Common, tells a guy she’s dating that rape-revenge movies don’t work. “Action ...