Financial Accounting 6 min read
Remeasuring Foreign Currency Balances
Question: In today’s global economy, many U.S. companies make a sizable amount of their sales internationally. The Coca-Cola Company, for example,…
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Explosives and blasting agents
Explosive materials are used for many military and industrial purposes. These are chemicals and mixtures which, when affected by strong…
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Combustible and flammable liquids
In the presence of ignition sources, combustible and flammable liquids are potential sources of risk. First, the closed or open…
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Fire Hazards of Materials and Products
The presence of combustible material in combustible systems represents an obvious condition of burning. Burning phenomena and the phases of…
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Ignition Sources
The phenomena supplying heat energy may be grouped into four fundamental categories as to their origin (Sax 1979): 1. heat energy…
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SOURCES OF FIRE HAZARDS
Tamás Bánky Fire and combustion have been defined in various ways. For our purposes, the most important statements in connection…
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Information Analysis for Fire Protection
In general terms, fire science has only recently been developed to a stage at which it is capable of providing…
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Explosions
An explosion is characterized by the sudden release of energy, producing a shock wave, or blast wave, that may be…
Basics 8 min read
Theory of Fire Extinguishment
Fire extinction and suppression can be examined in terms of the above outline of the theory of fire. The gas…
