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Principles of Fire Science

Table of Contents

Publisher’s Note




Introduction




Contributors




Accelerants




Activation Energy




Aerosol Pollutants




Air Pollution and Air Pollution Control




Alkanes: An Overview




Alkenes: An Overview




Alkynes: An Overview




Alternative Fuels




American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors




Analytical Instrumentation




Anthropogenic Air Pollution and Pollutants




Arson




Arson Dogs




Asphalt (Bitumen)




Atmospheric Inversions




Atmospheric Oxygen




Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry




Attica Wildfires




Australia’s “Black Summer” Bushfires




Benz, Karl




Biofuels




Bombing of Dresden, Germany




Burn Pattern Analysis




Burns and Scalds




Bushfires




Bushfires and Fuel Reduction




California Wildfires, 2018




California Wildfires, 2020




Carbon Monoxide Poisoning




Chalk River Nuclear Reactor Explosion




Chelyabinsk Nuclear Waste Explosion




Chlorofluorocarbons and Related Compounds




Chromatography




Coal Seam Fires




Combustion




Combustion in Space




Combustion vs. Explosion




Crime Scene Investigation




Cuyahoga River Fires




Daimler, Gottlieb




de Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent




Diesel Fuel




Diesel, Rudolf




Electrical Fires




Energy (Physics)




Exothermic and Endothermic Reactions




Explosives Technologies




Fire (Element)




Fire and Carbon Dioxide Emissions




Fire Debris as Evidence




Fire Prevention and Control




Fire Testing of Construction Materials




Firefighter




Firefighting




Firefighting Aircraft




Fires in Nature




Fires in Yellowstone National Park




Forest Fire Modeling




Forest Fires and Healthy Forests




Fort McMurray Wildfire




Fossil Fuels




Franklin, Benjamin




Gas Chromatography




Gasoline and Other Petroleum Fuels




The “Gates of Hell” Firepit




Goddard, Robert




Great Boston Fire




Great Chicago Fire




Great Fire of Brisbane




Great Fire of Constantinople




Great Fire of London




Great Fire of Rome




Great Peshtigo Fire




Greenhouse Gases and Global Climate Change




Gunshot Residue




Halifax Explosion




Heat Capacity




Heat Transfer




Heat vs. Temperature




Hydrogen




Hydrogen Fuel Cells




Hydrogen Power




Ignition Sources




Internal Combustion Engine




Intumescent Fire Protection Coatings for Structural Steel




Italian Factory Explosion Releases Dioxin




Lac-Mégantic Fire




Lenoir, Étienne




Magnesium and Other Metal Fires




Mass Spectrometry




Methane as a Fuel Source




Methane’s Global Warming Potential




Niépce, Nicéphore




North Carolina Fire Points to Workplace Hazards




Oil and Natural Gas Chemistry




Oxidation State




Oxygen




Phosphorus (P)




Propane




Properties of Matter: Composition




Rain Forests and the Atmosphere




Retreating Iraqi Army Burns Kuwaiti Oil Wells




Sadi Carnot




Slash-and-Burn Agriculture




Spontaneous Human Combustion




Steam and Steam Turbines




Steam Engine




Stevens, John




Synthetic Fuels Corporation




Transportation Fires




Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire




Vapor Pressure and Evaporation




Wankel, Felix




Wildfire Management




Wildfires




Wildfires and Wilderness Life Cycles




Wood and Charcoal as Fuel Resources




Bibliography




Glossary




Organizations