- Author
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Comeford, J. J.
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Birky, M.
- Title
- Method for the Measurement of Smoke and HCl Evolution from Poly(Vinyl Chloride).
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Journal
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Fire Technology,
Vol. 8,
No. 2,
85-90,
May 1972
- Keywords
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polyvinyl chloride
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smoke
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hydrochloric acid
- Abstract
- As poly(vinyl chloride) becomes more popular as a building material and electrical insulation, it becomes more important to life safety to determine its smoke and hydrogen chloride evolution characteristics during pyrolysis. The authors have devised a method of measuring the two simultaneously.