- Author
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Williams, F. A.
- Title
- Urban and Wildland Fire Phenomenology.
- Coporate
- Princeton Univ., NJ
- Journal
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Progress in Energy and Combustion Science,
Vol. 8,
No. 4,
317-354,
1982
- Sponsor
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Keywords
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urban fires
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fuels
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fire protection
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wildland fires
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combustion
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fire science
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combustible materials
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reaction kinetics
- Identifiers
- fire phenomenology; chemical conversion and heat liberation
- Abstract
- Mankind's concern with unwanted fires likely predates the first practical use of combustion in unrecorded history. Yet the science of fire protection has progressed more slowly than other aspects of combustion science.