Fire hazard in oxygen-enriched atmospheres at low barometric pressures

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 159-162

  West, John B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BUILDING INDUSTRY; FIRE PROTECTION; HAZARD; OXYGEN TENSION;

ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; CLOTHING; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; FIRES; HUMANS; OXYGEN; PAPER; SAFETY; TIME FACTORS;

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM;

EID: 0031013595     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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