- Author
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Babrauskas, V.
- Title
- Tables and Charts.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
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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
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heat of combustion
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oxygen index
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plastics
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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.