combustibility


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Synonyms for combustibility

the quality of being capable of igniting and burning

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The National Fire Chiefs' Council says the fire risks posed by buildings with ACM cladding, which is not of limited combustibility, can be reduced by other actions and further checks.
It is also apparent from micro calorimeter data that with increase in the content of filler, decreased heat release rate which indicates a decrease in combustibility. SEM images showed a fibrous chain formation in the composites having filler loading of 0.5 and 1.6 wt%.
She also points to additives that can improve the safety of batteries by reducing their combustibility. Any puncture in the shell of a lithium ion battery will allow interaction with the air and can yield a dramatic flare.
YOU will search in vain for any listing in the medical textbooks, in The Standard Nomenclature of Diseases, or in the World Heath Organisation's International List of the Causes of Death--now published as the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)--for the strange malady known as spontaneous human combustion (SHC), preternatural combustibility (PC), or auto-oxidation, and designated in lay terms the Fire from Heaven, although the nether region might seem more appropriate as fans et origo.
Yet for reasons both long-standing and of recent vintage, the combustibility of German-speaking Catholicism makes it a unique sign of contradiction in the global church, a bete noire for some and a beacon of hope for others.
FM Approvals will test to the new 4476 and 4478 PV standards that feature requirements for combustibility above the roof deck, wind resistance, and hail damage resistance.
In order to develop the set of linkages that developed from this initial kind of regulation, Moore introduces the idea of cinema's 'social combustibility' This phrase metaphorically connects the efforts of early regulations, which were focused on the film's flammable material base, to subsequent alarmist concerns about the medium's social consequences.
* Review the materials for combustibility. Some Material Safety Data Sheets now contain information about combustibility, but absence of this information does not necessarily mean no hazard exists.
Physical state of the materials and intermediate products, size and dimensions, combustibility, transfer rate, and other are conditions that gave rise to the simultaneous use of a variety of transportation modes or communicating among different units of a manufacturing company (Wagner & Enzler, 2005).
very effectively fill airspace with rust-preventing fumes--without strong odor or combustibility problems.
That realization adds combustibility to the facts now fueling Israel's fast-fading legitimacy.
Speed of production has inevitably increased temperature, friction and the possible combustibility of products.
This can manifest itself in his characteristic combustibility as his nervous energy gets the better of him during those involuntary leaps around the dugout.