- Author
- Babrauskas, V.
- Title
- Tables and Charts.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
- NFPA FPH 1686,
- Book or Conf
- Fire Protection Handbook. 16th Edition. Section 5. Chapter 11, National Fire Protection Assoc., Quincy, MA, Cote, A. E. and Linville, J. L., Editors, 5/117-133 p., 1986
- Keywords
- heat of combustion | oxygen index | plastics | gravity
- Identifiers
- spontaneous heating
- Abstract
- The heat of combustion is, by definition, the enthalpy of reaction when fuel and oxidant at standard conditions are reacted and form products at standard conditions. a unique value for the heat of combustion is possible only if these conditions are fully specified.