Two hundred years of flammable limits

Process Safety Progress

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-11

  Britton, Laurence G ^a  

^a DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAME PROPAGATION; FLAMMABLE LIMITS; PRESSURE RISE; PRODUCT DISTRIBUTION;

COMBUSTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FUELS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; STANDARDIZATION;

FLAMMABILITY;

SAFETY;

EID: 0036496450     PISSN: 10668527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prs.680210104     Document Type: Article

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