Most of the structure is not flammable, though there's flammable stuff in the sanctuary.
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At Grenfell, the flammable cladding was combined with flammable interior insulation, adding more fuel to the blaze.
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Another subcontractor, Omnis Exteriors, said on Friday that it had not been told that the flammable Reynobond cladding was going to be combined with flammable interior insulation.
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Investigators contend Wicks was also doused with the flammable fluid.
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It's colorless and odorless, but more flammable than conventional oil.
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The Japanese government wants to burn "flammable ice" for energy.
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Gunfire made sparks fly, glass shatter, and flammable materials explode.
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When a uniformed firefighter was clearing flammable objects from brush.
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"I said, 'This is a hugely flammable place,'" he said.
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Authority has become something diffuse and flammable, like spray paint.
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They were believed to be filled with a flammable liquid.
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Some organic peroxides also produce flammable vapors as they decompose.
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In other words, should Australians now retreat from "flammable places"?
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Propylene is a colorless, flammable, pungent gas made from petroleum.
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Inside, the walls and decor were filled highly flammable materials.
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Lee with a flammable liquid and set it on fire.
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The fundamental problem is the flammable liquid electrolyte lithium batteries use.
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The flammable flying monkeys are dead, but so is Thor White!
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Where the molten metal touched anything flammable, it started a fire.
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Instead, the men cluttered the warehouse with flammable materials, she said.
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That look makes me cringe a bit because it's so flammable.
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The statement also recommended storing the board away from flammable objects.
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The thing about deithyl ether is that it's really, REALLY flammable.
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It's not 100 percent sulfur concentrate, but it's still highly flammable.
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It&aposs also flammable and could catch fire during the move.
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Investigators said a passenger was carrying flammable materials that ignited accidentally.
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Can't we just give teachers copier paper instead of flammable acid?
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I had a definitely flammable Star Wars bedspread cause of her.
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It is generally more flammable and explosive than normal crude oil.
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Stewart said the product manual would cover the do's and don'ts of charging the devices: "You're never to ever charge a hoverboard on any flammable surface or within 5 metres of any flammable materials," he said.
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However, bond removal liquids can be extremely flammable, so be extra careful.
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Wildfire is even more flammable than a Drogon's flames — or any dragon's.
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Interior Minister Joseph Nkaissery said Sunday the tanker carried highly flammable materials.
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Uniforms and laptops were also reportedly stolen from the marginally flammable accomodation.
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Eucalyptus trees are an invasive species in California and are notoriously flammable.
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But consistent fire suppression only increases the amount of dry, flammable material.
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But it is also toxic and flammable—and spills can be disastrous.
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That consensus has ended, ushering in a more flammable, less predictable era.
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"Wheat when it&aposs dry is as flammable as straw," Stein said.
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Climate change makes heat waves hotter, hurricanes stronger, and forests more flammable.
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They also resist shrinking and creasing, are not flammable, and dry quickly.
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Both families say water in their homes was flammable in the past.
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Any kind of shrubbery needs to be low and not real flammable.
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What will come in behind these trees is more volatile, flammable vegetation.
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Largely built from wood, tenements were made more flammable by poor sanitation.
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Slashing before burning produces a lot of very dry, very flammable fuel.
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For nearly forty years, Ricketts has watched the forest become more flammable.
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This in turn will make shrubs and trees drier and more flammable.
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At least one woman had been permanently disfigured by flammable hair spray.
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Harvesting these stalwarts can actually increase fire risks as more flammable vegetation accumulates.
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There was a fear that doing so would exacerbate an already flammable situation.
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The problem lies with the lithium-ion battery which contains flammable liquid electrolyte.
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Repeatedly, Pence declined to defend some of the more flammable issues surrounding Trump.
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In one case, Amazon paid $91,000 to apologize for sending flammable liquid adhesive.
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Instead, please store them away from anything flammable until we complete our investigation.
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Also, Crisco is flammable, so the whole thing posed a serious safety hazard.
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This risk will extend to all flammable environments, for instance a petrol station.
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Ivanka Trump's scarves were recalled because they were highly flammable and criminally bland.
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The forests are, because of whatever reason, ... extraordinarily flammable, to put it mildly.
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As snow melts earlier, vegetation dries sooner, becoming flammable earlier in the season.
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But the side effect is that they may also make themselves more flammable.
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Few, if any, sporting events, in America, had been so charged, so flammable.
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Tubes, palettes, charcoal sticks and flammable solvents were arranged across carts and tables.
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It is highly flammable, so it can be used as a combustion fuel.
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It effectively replaces the flammable electrolyte with a solid ceramic material that doesn't burn.
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"There was fear that doing so would exacerbate an already flammable situation," Altomare said.
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A staircase between its two floors was built partially out of flammable wooden pallets.
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Investigators found a flammable substance in a backpack aboard the bus, but no explosives.
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Year in and year out, the madness is too unpredictable; the brackets, too flammable.
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Said plant was fortunately evacuated of 50,000 gallons of flammable pentane gas, CBS added.
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"Please store them away from anything flammable until we complete our investigation," Dastoor wrote.
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Diesel's engine also ran on a grade of fuel far less flammable than gasoline.
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On May 10, officials removed 203,000 gallons of highly flammable liquid from the plant .
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Some were trapped inside shops, shops crammed with highly flammable clothing, perfumes and plastics.
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Landlords should get potentially flammable building materials tested as soon as possible, he added.
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The use of diesel fuel is an important detail — it's less flammable than gasoline.
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The city has accused the store of illegal storage and use of flammable materials.
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We use carefully measured amounts of black powder, flammable liquids, gases and pyrotechnic gels.
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Fire lines: Fire spreads as it ignites brush, vegetation, structures and other flammable material.
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It was later learned that the bag contained a plastic bottle with flammable material.
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As temperatures increased in the trailers that housed flammable organic peroxides, three spontaneously ignited.
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Skyscrapers go up in flames because they have flammable cladding yet no automatic sprinklers.
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Without controlled burns or occasional fires, flammable materials like brush and dead grasses accumulate.
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I cannot say whether this is a bomb or some sort of flammable material.
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Sugar is flammable and provides a cheap accelerant, while potassium chlorate is an explosive.
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Trash cans on a plane are mostly filled with flammable materials, like cocktail napkins.
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These low-income areas see many fires because homes are made of flammable materials.
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Tree specialists were removing flammable lodgepole pines in Sunriver, a 22,13-home resort community.
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GigaCrete also makes a non-flammable, proprietary coatings that are plastered on the walls.
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He sets off a calamity as he stumbles toward flammable tanks in a nearby room.
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At the same time, the explosion will disperse highly flammable fuel particles around its vicinity.
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Local media reported that a person threw a flammable liquid inside a crowded train compartment.
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"It's a flammable situation and with lots of room for miscues and miscalculations," said Yergin.
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It wasn't until after that take that they told me my costume was anti-flammable.
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Plenty of researchers are trying to develop safer batteries with less flammable materials, Lamb says.
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It was an iconic luxury vessel, but it was filled with hydrogen, a flammable gas.
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The tanks hold flammable liquids that are difficult to extinguish using water and foam suppressants.
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It's flammable, can cause skin or eye irritation, and can be deadly if accidentally ingested.
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"There was a fear that doing so would exacerbate an already flammable situation," Altomare said.
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"There was a fear that doing so would exacerbate an already flammable situation," he added.
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That creates a more flammable forest by opening tree canopies and letting in more wind.
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The cladding used when the Grenfell Tower was refurbished was the cheaper, more flammable option.
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Her excellent graphic memoir Everything Is Flammable comes out on April 18 from Uncivilized Books.
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Gabrielle Bell is the author of Everything Is Flammable , forthcoming from Uncivilized Books in April.
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When dressing for your travels, avoid materials that are very flammable, like nylon and polyester.
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The police blamed flammable materials used in the facade for the spread of the flames.
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"Anyone making highly volatile and flammable compounds without much chemistry experience should be," he said.
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But the would-be attackers used a barely flammable substance and never ignited the car.
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Garbage trucks' loads can catch fire from batteries, paint, chemicals, cigarettes and other flammable items.
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But while trees are vital, forests are vulnerable in hotter, drier, more flammable Mediterranean climates.
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Their reliance on toxic, flammable materials means the smallest defect can result in exploding gadgets.
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In Australia, fires that are too hot actually allows the flammable undergrowth to germinate more.
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The aluminum sandwiching always failed in the heat of a fire, exposing the flammable filling.
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Plus, as the philosopher Amartya Sen has argued, this mentality makes the world more flammable.
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The buildings in King's Landing are mostly made of stone, and stone normally isn't flammable.
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In the tunnel, the margarine had melted and then turned into a highly flammable vapor.
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I want to show that there's a drought and everything around the sofa is flammable.
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Oxygen is highly flammable, making gas molecules within a flame much hotter and more excitable.
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There are two kinds of cladding: one that is more flammable, and one that is not.
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Multiple reports involved "undeclared aerosols" that were flammable and had no hazardous markings on the packages.
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It can also fire through windows, burn through gas tanks and ignite anything that&aposs flammable.
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Living quarters with narrow, winding halls were built from scrap materials, including highly flammable wooden pallets.
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If you don't clean your lint filter, then it's bad because lint is really effin' flammable.
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After all, lithium ion battery contain a flammable liquid that not only explodes but explodes spectacularly.
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Higher ambient temperatures cause snow to melt earlier, leading to drier, more flammable biomass in forests.
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They even house nitrate film reels, which are extremely flammable because they're essentially rolls of gunpowder.
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Safety is a concern, as hydrogen is flammable, but so is gasoline and lithium-ion batteries.
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Peaty soil is particularly flammable when dry, often causing fires to spread beyond their intended areas.
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It will measure 13 feet long and almost 21 feet high, buoyed by non-flammable helium.
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But it fell out of favor as sailors said they wanted something lighter and less flammable.
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The fire prompted city officials to question why flammable materials had been kept beneath the tracks.
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The batteries, which include volatile and flammable chemical compounds, can become unstable if overheated or punctured.
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You ship something flammable in a passenger airplane, no one is going to take that lightly.
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Methyl chloride, also known as Freon-40, is a colorless, sweet-smelling gas that's highly flammable.
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Ideally, a more expensive but non-flammable material would be used for a project like this.
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"Like flammable pajamas, some products should just be kept out of the marketplace," Mr. Bernanke wrote.
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The House of Windsor's brand had become flammable, and the future popularity of the monarchy uncertain.
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Move anything flammable way back from the fire area, including the wood you're planning to burn.
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Worryingly, these were more flammable than the feathery tussock grasses that had previously colonized the land.
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The suit accuses the engineered metals supplier of failing to disclose the use of flammable panels.
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Hundreds of new firefighters have been hired and efforts made to clear flammable undergrowth from forests.
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Earlier reports had said the tanker was carrying 75,000 tonnes of naphtha, a flammable liquid hydrocarbon.
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Several years ago, when a homeowner in Parker County, Texas said that the natural gas drilling near his home had turned his water flammable, Bartz says he testified as an expert witness for the state of Texas, which argued that the man's water was already flammable.
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They go door to door in certain parts of Dublin with a shopping trolley collecting anything flammable.
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Counties are often reluctant to turn away development in dangerously flammable areas because they get tax benefits.
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Ancient peaty soil is particularly flammable when dry, often causing fires to spread beyond their intended areas.
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In addition, never light fireworks indoors and keep them away from dry grass and other flammable items.
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As I understand it, the skirt was highly flammable and severely burned the majority of Sasha's body.
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On May 10, Travis oversaw the removal of 60,000 gallons of highly flammable pentane from the venture.
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The plant housed extremely flammable organic peroxides that required refrigeration, as once they heat up, they ignite.
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Highly flammable butane is cooled and stored as a liquid, but converts to gas at atmospheric temperatures.
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Whether it uses gasoline or a lithium-ion battery, most every car has a flammable liquid inside.
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The state has a lot of nonnative grasses and plants — most notably the highly flammable eucalyptus plant.
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The projectile would be filled with a flammable material that would ignite when the bullet is fired.
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The instructor said that electronics are harder to sniff out than bombs, drugs, humans, or flammable liquids.
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Besides having a strong orange aroma, limonene is a hydrocarbon just like petroleum, making it extremely flammable.
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The PCM was flammable; it would have to fly to West Africa on a military cargo plane.
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Lithium ion batteries, used by most smartphones, are notoriously flammable, even though fires are mercifully uncommon. [CNN]
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Almena and Harris allowed the floor-to-ceiling storage of large quantities of flammable materials, she said.
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Accelerants like lighter fluid should be used cautiously — and flammable liquids like gasoline should never be used.
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Bushfires are a common and deadly threat in Australia's hot, dry summers, fueled by highly flammable eucalyptus.
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E-CigarettesAny e-cigarettes or vapors are actually banned in checked luggage, due to their flammable risks.
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"Why would you put a bunch of flammable items below a train track?" said Mr. Thomas, 55.
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Rivalry with China Japan, of course, is not the only country with its eye on flammable ice.
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Natural fabric curtains are more flammable and usually don't provide any defense against mildew and other buildups.
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Preparing for a hotter, more flammable future Every man-made thing that burned, burned all the way.
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That means showing them how to clear anything flammable within 103 to 50 feet of a house.
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A century of fire suppression allowed flammable material — twigs and brush — to build up in forests nationwide.
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The tree, however, contains a highly flammable oil that helps fires erupt more easily, spread and intensify.
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For now the team uses a per-capita estimate of 11,000 kg of flammable material per person.
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Arconic sells a flammable polyethylene version of its Reynobond cladding and a more expensive, fire-resistant version.
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Then, on Thursday, the company confirmed that its flammable polyethylene panels had been used on the building.
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Like the cheap, flammable hoverboards, lithium-ion batteries were to blame for the Note 22's downfall.
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In the meantime, Moss urges residents not to shoot down the drones as they are highly flammable.
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Studios still bear signs identifying chemical laboratories and warnings about the dangers of smoking around flammable gasses.
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It'll all come down to some very flat grasslands, a dragon, and a lot of flammable human bodies.
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But instead of cold water filling your lungs, toxic, flammable particles start killing you from the inside out.
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A mechanical failure near a compressor filled with flammable gas likely sparked the blaze, the company has suggested.
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The administration rolled back a requirement for trains transporting oil and other flammable materials to install special brakes.
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That makes it a wonderful store of carbon—until it dries out, at which point it becomes flammable.
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But here's the thing — that gas is highly flammable, and when it interacts with lava, it can explode.
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The authority noted that riders were already prohibited from riding scooters and skateboards and from carrying flammable materials.
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Yes. Fires can burn away undergrowth, preventing buildups of flammable vegetation that can make big fires even worse.
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And if the trees haven't been maintained — if there are old, dry, very flammable fronds — they're especially combustible.
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With a rake, he collected stray leaves and flammable material like dead grass and dried up potted flowers.
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Rising average temperatures has led to forests in the western United States drying out and becoming more flammable.
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Details: The blaze began after a man sprayed a flammable liquid onto the building, police told Kyodo News.
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It give grants over five years to communities to cut fuel breaks, thin flammable brush, and educate firefighters.
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Authorities have shut down the plant, removed 60,000 gallons (230,000 liters) of flammable liquid, and deactivated the wells.
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They told reporters the building where the fire began had housed a plastics warehouse and contained flammable material.
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They should also not be carried in the same bag as flammable items such as perfume or aerosols.
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Long years of neglect and policy errors have created flammable American and Chinese red lines in Asia-Pacific.
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Eckermann said it was unclear if the flammable material was similar to that used in the London building.
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Hydrogen is an extremely flammable gas, and some electronics with lithium-ion batteries have famously caught on fire.
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So Bayek has to take out his torch and put it to the large flammable piles of detritus.
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Advanced brakes for trains that carry flammable crude oil, which are already required for trains carrying radioactive waste.
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In an unrelated incident, police said "rioters" poured "flammable liquid" on a man and set him on fire.
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The library has trucked in goats in years past to eat away flammable scrub around the building's perimeter.
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In a separate incident, police said "rioters" poured "flammable liquid" on a man and set him on fire.
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" According to the probable cause statement, these objects violated California fire codes and made the space "highly flammable.
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However, the resident says Norton's production company had "highly flammable equipment" in the basement ... according to the suit.
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In fact, insects play a critical role in breaking down the leaf litter to make forests less flammable.
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Chief Kurniawan said that a large amount of plastic and flammable material had been found on the site.
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Hard liquor and high-proof alcohol are extremely flammable, and the process could lead to a deadly explosion.
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Bushfires are a common and deadly threat in Australia's hot, dry summers, fueled by highly flammable eucalyptus trees.
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Only classic pedal-powered bikes without flammable batteries remained in San Francisco, San Jose, and the East Bay.
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Arconic has marketed the flammable facades in Britain for years, even as it has adjusted its pitch elsewhere.
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As a result, American building codes have effectively banned flammable cladding in high-rises for nearly two decades.
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We cleared as much as we could, moved flammable things off the veranda and hosed down the yard.
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The winter storms have unleashed a bumper crop of highly flammable grasses in lowland foothills across the West.
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One man who argued with a group of protesters was doused in flammable liquid and lit on fire.
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Verdict: Sadly, Atherton officials should have seen this coming — burning down flammable statuary is a time-honored practice.
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The surface of concrete can burn as well if it's covered in flammable materials, like varnish or plastic.
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Fire, explosives, spilling water, flammable liquids, foaming chemicals and deflating balloons combine with gravity to keep the action going.
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THE WILDFIRE is half a mile away, with nothing between it and Tim Hatfield's fireline except flammable spruce trees.
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It doesn't blow up if you drop it, and its manufacturer claims it is designed to be non-flammable.
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The guard asked him where he was going, and told that he couldn't walk in carrying the flammable items.
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Giller added that goats are brought in each year to get rid of the flammable vegetation near the library.
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That stuff is corrosive, flammable, or toxic, and you definitely don't want it dribbling onto or into your body.
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Turns out putting acid and flammable gas into a box and putting it on an airplane is not okay.
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Lithium ions move from one side to the other, helped by highly flammable chemicals in the middle called electrolytes.
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Orange-hued and modular, they resemble those from the 1970s, discarded because they were flammable, another visitor danger averted.
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If you don't have a large area clear of all flammable materials, you should not be burning anything, ever.
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Each of the launcher's 24 thermobaric rockets contains a flammable chemical which disperses into the air above a target.
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He'd take a bag of candles, matches, and flammable liquids to see which methods started which kinds of fires.
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Coradia iLint trains will use hydrogen waste from chemical plants, which produce the flammable, odorless gas as a byproduct.
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David Ige said a geothermal energy plant near the lava outbreak was accelerating its removal of stored flammable gas.
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The Hillsborough police said someone had hurled "a bottle containing flammable material" through the front window of the headquarters.
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Homes with broken or open windows, flammable landscape materials, or gutters littered with debris are also quick to ignite.
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Arconic – Arconic supplied flammable panels to a distributor for use in London's Grenfell Tower, according to a Reuters report.
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" "Countless homes are still wrapped in flammable materials, while warnings from tenants about risks to their safety go ignored.
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After the blaze, it emerged that the cladding was a less expensive and more flammable variety than the alternatives.
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Flammable gas represented in 18-Across and 9-Down Circled letters H, H, H, H, C = CH4 METHANE 55A.
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When he is with her, the possibility of violence hovers in the air like an odorless, highly flammable gas.
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A harrowing statistic: In London, 2,500 wearers of flammable crinolines met fiery deaths in the single year of 1864.
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In response to the lie, the Finns sarcastically named their own bombs — bottles filled with flammable fuel — Molotov cocktails.
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The last thing he wants his two young children to inherit is a hillside strewn with dry, flammable brush.
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Space heaters in particular should be placed on a flat, hard surface at least 3 feet from anything flammable.
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Sitting atop it all was a ring of zirconium, an incendiary substance meant to ignite any nearby flammable material.
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An investigation showed that the craft was filled with highly flammable materials including the foam in the seat cushions.
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Technical economic issues that should have been handled by the mechanisms of a shared currency suddenly became politically flammable.
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And, as Gerwarth's well-researched and engrossing book makes clear, there was already plenty of flammable material lying about.
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Poland's firefighting chief, Leszek Suski, said that the electrical wiring at the venue was too close to flammable materials.
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The light would also "easily ignite fires with flammable objects like leaves, twigs, paper, or your clothing," he added.
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Early reports that few other buildings have been clad in the flammable material that exacerbated the fire may calm fears.
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"We saw grime-soaked workers smoking cigarettes between breaks, surrounded by toxic—and potentially flammable—digital detritus," Karacs told me.
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That same (highly flammable) bear got nice and toasted, but the flames alone didn't seem to bother it at all.
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Low-density track homes, for example, have "more flammable vegetation between the houses," exacerbating the fires that do reach them.
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The highly flammable gas flows through the underground cracks looking for places to escape, causing the blue flames pictured above.
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Finally, developers and homeowners must be pushed to use fire-resistant materials and to clear their properties of flammable materials.
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They're focusing on materials that are less flammable and more environmentally friendly, including chemicals called esters, and even vegetable oil.
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In one instance, Amazon failed to properly mark a package of "Simple Air EZ Green HVAC Cleaner," a flammable gas.
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Authorities already shut down the plant and removed 60,000 gallons of flammable liquid at the start of the volcanic activity.
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Officials removed 50,000 gallons of stored flammable gas from the plant earlier this month to reduce the chance of explosions.
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Someone poured a flammable liquid throughout the home to make the fire spread faster, lit a candle and then left.
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But it is also highly flammable once drained, and has caused major fires in Indonesia and Russia in recent years.
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Their conclusion was that, while somewhat more flammable than R-134a, the new refrigerant did not present a serious hazard.
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The heavy bitumen in the oil sands themselves is not flammable, but the facilities and people inside are at risk.
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The bill also relaxes rules on logging to make it easier to get to some of the most flammable trees.
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Instead, Dillon allegedly sprayed both officers with the same flammable liquid he used to light the homeless man on fire.
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He said the shrub would likely fuel plantation fires as it is highly flammable, particularly during Zimbabwe's ongoing severe drought.
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Lithium-ion batteries comprise flammable materials; the Samsung Note 7 phone explosions were partly tied to overheating lithium-ion batteries.
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In November, a series of blasts during the delivery of a flammable gas at a chemical manufacturer killed 23 people.
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The devices were determined to be flammable but not explosive and posed no threat to the public, the FBI said.
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They were cheaply and easily (albeit illegally) acquired from local hospitals that were required to throw out the flammable sheets.
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Flammable ice doesn't look that different from something you might use to chill a cocktail, but the similarity stops there.
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Plant workers removed 50,000 gallons of pentane, a highly flammable solvent, stored at the site as a precaution last week.
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The fire happened after hydraulic oil — which is flammable — leaked onto the plane's hot brakes, Sky News and FlightGlobal reported.
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Elsewhere, a man was doused with a flammable liquid and set on fire after he scolded protesters, video footage shows.
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There's a distinct possibility that improper installation and flammable insulation played a part in the loss of homes and lives.
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It's surreal to watch a movie up in flames, recalling the days when film was made of highly flammable celluloid.
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" Surface adds several more fire safety no-brainers: "Do not allow large installations or dividers of fabric, paper, flammable wood.
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Hand grenades were, until last year, classified as "flammable products" rather than weapons, so sentences for detonating them were mild.
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Keep in mind that the backdrop for the campaigning is a flammable mix of economic, religious and national security issues.
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This process is also extremely dangerous, because a soda bottle wasn't designed for ultra-flammable chemical reactions involving corrosive chemicals.
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What We Found Ms. Guy's high-rise is covered in a tapestry of flammable cladding, not just the Grenfell type.
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Zinc air batteries lack toxic compounds, are not flammable and can be disposed of safely, according to MIT Technology Review.
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Over Mr. Tepper's firm warnings ("Dude, I'm serious"), a cameraman ignited a puff of flammable foam in Mr. Paul's palm.
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Go inside with caution — don't touch electrical equipment, and use a flashlight, rather than anything flammable, in order to see.
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A shareholder has sued, accusing the company of defrauding shareholders by allegedly failing to disclose the use of flammable panels.
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Lithium-ion batteries cannot be treated like normal waste; they are flammable and could release toxic chemicals into the environment.
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This fall, the recall of Samsung's Galaxy Note 7, a high-end smartphone, brought flammable batteries back into the news.
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Australia is prone to deadly blazes, thanks to its combination of remote terrain, high summer temperatures and flammable eucalyptus bush.
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When Christmas trees burn, they release creosote -- a highly flammable, toxic substance consisting mainly of tar -- into the fire smoke.
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Japan, however, did not give up its quest of strong export sales to China against a background of flammable disputes.
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"The heat must have been intense because there is nothing flammable left on the bus," he said, according to Reuters.
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This also increases the damage from the fires that do occur, since property ends up so close to flammable vegetation.
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Lanford Wilson's incendiary 1987 drama returns to Broadway with a pair of highly flammable stars: Adam Driver and Keri Russell.
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Lanford Wilson's incendiary 25812 drama returns to Broadway with a pair of highly flammable stars: Adam Driver and Keri Russell.
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A source familiar with the investigation told Reuters flammable objects are not usually put in that place in an aircraft.
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If they don't clear flammable brush themselves, the city will do it for them and add it to their tax bill.
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In particular, it's hot, it's dry, it's windy, there's been little rain, and just about all the vegetation around is flammable.
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The weather also has been dry with no substantial rain for weeks — making the region&aposs brush and forests highly flammable.
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Unless local regulators do something about the building's flammable aluminum cladding, however, there's a decent chance the building could burn again.
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According to these documents, some unmarked packages have leaked hazardous materials like gasoline and lye, and others have included flammable aerosols.
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Authorities say Watts strapped fireworks to his chest, doused himself with a flammable liquid and set himself on fire June 26.
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It seemed like the filmmakers wanted to make the gas more flammable, Burks speculates, and people might equate hydrogen with flames.
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"Nonnative vegetation species are more flammable or better at spreading fire than what would have been there otherwise," said Dr. Williams.
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They say the 27-year-old suspect had at least one knife and poured out a flammable liquid, which caught fire.
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Or maybe it's just a giant 30 pound ball of highly flammable lint a nice lady made in her free time.
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Moreover, the pipes meant to carry the flammable stuff are rusting and regularly vandalised by thugs demanding money to protect them.
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A "Whoville" themed Christmas parade float went up in flames after somebody flicked a cigarette onto a flammable part of it.
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The deforested, drained peatlands are highly flammable, and smouldering peatland fires have caused choking haze across Southeast Asia in recent years.
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"These are highly flammable so when the fire came in contact with these goods the fire spread rapidly," Rahman told Reuters.
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On Friday they fitted kites with cans of flammable liquid, which they flew across the border to start fires in Israel.
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After a fire, these grasses are able to grow back faster, leading to concern that they may replace less flammable shrubs.
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After the fire, the authority inspected businesses located near subway and railroad tracks across the region to check for flammable materials.
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Another simple hardware upgrade mentioned involves replacing wooden poles with sturdier, less flammable ones made from materials like steel or concrete.
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The city issued another shelter-in-place in 2016 when a pipeline began leaking a highly flammable gas called dilute propylene.
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The presence of tiny Styrofoam balls within the Etch-A-Sketch powder means it's not flammable enough to do the job.
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An insulation maker, Rockwool, has estimated 340 recently built high-rise complexes use flammable cladding different from the kind on Grenfell.
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Aided by volunteers, he spray-painted the resin blocks to render them more flammable, then set them ablaze with a blowtorch.
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But don't try to make your own hard liquor, as it is a highly flammable process that could lead to explosions.
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As Graham put it, the Gondwana rainforests are already "islands in the sky," peppering mountaintops and surrounded by flammable eucalyptus forests.
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Lighting small patches of low-intensity fires during the cool season burns off bush undergrowth, reducing the amount of flammable materials.
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During the last and greatest explosion, a vessel within a unit containing highly flammable hydrocarbons ruptured, hurling fragments into the air.
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Used from the late 270s through the 22015s, nitrate film was incredibly flammable and caused some major fires in movies theaters.
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He represents objects that aren't flammable on fire, as in "The Discovery of Fire" (1959), which shows a tuba on fire.
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The 24-story London tower block turned into a death trap because of cheap, flammable material and other shortcomings, advocates say.
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Earlier, national fire chief Leszek Suski said Saturday that electrical wiring at the location was makeshift and too close to flammable materials.
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"He was strapped with some homemade incendiary devices, firecrackers and doused himself with some kind of flammable liquid," Georgia State Patrol Capt.
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If something can light a joint on fire, it could do the same thing to your hair, or anything flammable within reach.
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It doesn't consume the children, though it does fairly wreck everything flammable they come in contact with through one of their fits.
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The flammable scarf recall involves two styles: the Beach Wave (blue, coral, and yellow) and the Brushstroke Oblong (blue, red, and green).
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No, it's not Ken Bone's tomato-colored sweater, or Donald J. Trump's "locker room talk," or the actually flammable Galaxy Note 7.
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Lithium batteries are nothing more than a mess of very flammable chemicals smooshed together and exposed to an electrical charge via electrodes.
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According to a press release from the town's website, the headquarters was struck overnight when "flammable material" was thrown through a window.
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Vandals apparently tossed a bottle filled with a flammable substance into Orange County GOP headquarters, charring pro-Donald Trump signs and furniture.
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"Yeah, we don't want you to put flammable stuff there for sure, but you really shouldn't be putting anything there," Hecox said.
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Twelve of the private train's tanks, carrying propylene, very volatile and highly flammable gas, derailed at the rail station of the village.
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The shooter took out a container of flammable liquid, poured it on the floor and then ignited it, law enforcement sources said.
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Peaty soil, found in many parts of Indonesia, is particularly flammable when dry, often causing fires to spread beyond their intended areas.
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To ensure that the lithium-ion particles can move easily between electrodes, volatile and flammable chemical compounds are pressurized inside battery cells.
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If it continues, the rainforest could dry out even more, become flammable, and release billions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere.
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Cheatgrass is highly flammable, and the resulting high-frequency range fires can eliminate deep-rooted shrubs, accelerating carbon loss from the soil.
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The low humidity, Mr. Minnich said, had dried out shrubs and bushes — known as chaparral — making them as flammable as a carpet.
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Photos from inside Ghost Ship show a dark and intimate setting, cluttered with flammable decorations like rugs, wooden wall-hangings and lamps.
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Light the Doritos with a long-handled match (or very carefully with a regular match or lighter—seriously, they're really, really flammable).
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Even as climate change increases the risk of large, destructive wildfires, we keep building in the most flammable parts of the country.
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Hydrogen molecules are small, light, highly reactive with other elements, very flammable and burn with a hotter flame than natural gas (methane).
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Moreover, fir, pine and spruce trees contain a highly flammable tar called creosote, which produces soot and can lead to chimney fires.
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If you have time, remove flammable items like wood piles, brush and propane tanks at least 30 feet away from your house.
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People shut their doors and windows tight to stop the benzene, a sweet-smelling, highly-flammable carcinogen, from seeping into their homes.
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"The only thing you could argue is that New Jerseyans are more flammable than people in the other 49 states," he said.
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For now, keep in mind that the backdrop for the campaigning is a flammable mix of economic, religious and national security issues.
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"We hope that alternative products offered to consumers, most of which are flammable, do not result in greater fire risk," she said.
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The tanker, the Sanchi, was carrying 136,000 tons of highly flammable fuel oil when it crashed into a freighter on Jan. 6.
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Not quite a third of that would pay for drawings of the house, a security fence and the removal of flammable material.
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These include, in the Reagan Library's case, an annual visitation by a herd of goats that eats away the surrounding flammable scrub.
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He's a highly flammable ball of misogynist grease, and you can't wait to have someone toss a match at his pretty mug.
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The Front Altair, loaded with the flammable hydrocarbon mixture naphtha from the United Arab Emirates, radioed for help as it caught fire.
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The authorities have ordered the evacuation of thousands of people from buildings with the same kind of flammable facade Grenfell Tower had.
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Today's lithium-ion batteries, as anyone who has followed Samsung's recent problems with flammable smartphones may know, can be ticking time bombs.
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This led NASA to conduct a whole slew of research for a way to cover flammable things with a fire-resistant material.
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Some industry figures have advocated more specific rules, such as the banning of any flammable materials from the outside of tall buildings.
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Burning Man may seem like an obvious example to follow, but perhaps a flammable sculpture would work nicely as your soirée's centerpiece.
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On Saturday night, someone threw a flammable bottle into a Republican headquarters in North Carolina, setting much of the office inside ablaze.
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Fish collections, with their delicate specimens and flammable spirits, and herbaria, with their need for climate-control, are not cheap to maintain.
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But the chief suspect is external cladding made from blocks of flammable plastic encased in sheets of aluminium that was added in 2014.
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Spanish moss had been hung and treated with flammable pesticides, which helped the fire spread quickly inside, where about 200 people died. 3.
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Workers have also managed to remove 60,000 gallons (227,124 liters) of pentane, a highly flammable and noxious liquid that's used at the plant.
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"He had (fireworks) strapped to himself and as I understand doused himself with some additional flammable and set himself on fire," said Capt.
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Jeremy Buckingham writes:I was shocked by force of the explosion when I tested whether gas boiling through the Condamine River, Qld was flammable.
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Such schemes often plant exotic trees, like pine and eucalyptus, which are very flammable and also valuable as timber and pulp, he says.
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Investigations showed the fire was caused by a driver who was smoking a cigarette inside the vehicle while illegally transporting highly flammable substances.
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Airport spokesman Chris Jones said this is because jet fuel, while combustible, is not a flammable liquid that is easily detonated by gunfire.
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Candido said investigators are also looking at whether the ceiling material in the call center was flammable but haven't drawn any conclusions yet.
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Xinhua said the nursing home in the central Henan province had been illegally extended and flammable materials had been used on the extension.
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It involves igniting a flammable material inside the Cygnus spacecraft, to better understand how potential fires can spread across a vehicle in space.
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Trains hauling oil and other flammable material should be better and more frequently inspected, a National Academies of Sciences report out Wednesday says.
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Most of the fires burn on highly flammable peatland so spread beyond their intended target, sending smoke billowing over nearby Singapore and Malaysia.
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Separately, another man was also in critical condition after he was doused with what police described as "flammable liquid" and set on fire.
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"The replacements are more flammable and toxic," said Stephen Yurek, the president of the Air-Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration Institute, an advocacy organization.
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Petty and his family were eating breakfast when the arsonist doused the home's wooden staircase in flammable liquid and set it on fire.
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But now the extra-flammable tree debris also falls to the ground along with it, creating a bed of yet more burnable material.
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And the thousands of new homes that are being built each year deeper into flammable forests and brushlands are at even greater risk.
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As they have for years, local residents eye the towering Eucalyptus trees that shade their streets with dread over their explosively flammable branches.
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JULIE TURKEWITZ Among the rolling scablands and flammable forests of the Inland Northwest, open water is as scarce as hoppy beer is ubiquitous.
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Among them were round-the-clock patrols, mandated by local fire brigades, that are supposed to protect people from their building's flammable skin.
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That requires approval from the FAA and the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, given the flammable nature of the germ-killing goo.
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Some important ones: how close a house is to vegetation, how flammable that brush is and what the house's roof is made of.
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He's alone in a basement with an arsonist, a flare, and a whole bunch of flammable chemicals when the episode fades to black.
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Grenfell, a 24-story block, had an aluminum facade with a flammable plastic core, which allowed flames to spread rapidly up the exterior.
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Others protesters painted slogans including "they are killing us" on the building's walls and fired bright flames from cans of flammable spray-paint.
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EVERYTHING IS FLAMMABLE (Uncivilized, $25.95) extends that aesthetic to a book-length narrative, a memoir of Bell's difficult relationship with her mother, Maggie.
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Experts now recommend class A fire-rated material, which flammable wood shake is not — though it can be treated with fire resistant chemicals.
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Some residents said they were not woken by smoke alarms, that there were no sprinklers and that recently installed cladding had seemed particularly flammable.
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Flamethrowers shoot out an ignited stream of flammable liquid so that agricultural workers, soldiers, and pyrotechnicians can ignite things that are several yards away.
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But crowdsourced information on Quora (so, grain of salt) seems to think coconuts are specifically banned aboard aircrafts because of their highly flammable husks.
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Officials say unusually hot weather, high winds and highly flammable vegetation turned brittle by drought helped fuel several fires that began over the weekend.
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Away from my flammable nightie, my mum lit a candle she'd been saving for a special occasion, and began talking to people about Diana.
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The reckoning is here, and California—a highly flammable state packed with people—is getting it worse than just about anybody in the world.
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The facility employs a barcode system for automated bin location and has a dedicated sampling room with appropriate extraction and handling for flammable materials.
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Between 1990 and 2010, roughly one million homes were built at this flammable frontier, often making prescribed burns there impossible and fires more likely.
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In some of those cases, experts said the flames may have been encouraged to spread by flammable exterior cladding, used for decoration or insulation.
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One of the three fire signs, Aries acts like a spark, catching onto anything flammable within reach, in the hopes of starting a blaze.
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The trouble with these scarves is that they're made from 100 percent rayon, a highly flammable material that can catch fire easier than newspaper.
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Authorities on Thursday completed the removal of highly flammable chemicals from a nearby geothermal power plant that was in the path of creeping lava.
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Because a distraught Rebecca had a handful of her late husband's extremely flammable possessions following the fire, including his wedding ring and a notepad.
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More research will help with how to build less flammable buildings, and to identify places where buildings maybe shouldn't be in the first place.
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The U.S. Department of Transportation expects flammable liquids to be carried in comparable DOT-117 rail tank cars, or retrofits, by May 1, 2029.
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But the Italian police union COISIP said officers were forced to use water cannon because of the "risk of explosions caused by flammable liquids".
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And concerns emerged that the lava could get near the Puna Geothermal Plant, where flammable liquids are stored, CNN affiliate Hawaii News Now reported.
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The plan spins out of control when Roach, covered in flammable spray, runs through a fire to escape Badison, setting her entire body alight.
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A witness was able to pull off a towel from the man that had been soaked in a flammable liquid, saving him from burns.
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They bring dry air and low humidity, even to coastal areas, said CNN meteorologist Judson Jones, causing vegetation to become more flammable than normal.
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Fire bombs, or incendiary bombs, let loose flammable substances as they strike, as opposed to high-explosive bombs, which destroy with concussion and shrapnel.
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Her body had burn marks consistent with "an accelerant or flammable substance being applied to the body, then lit on fire," the document said.
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The suit describes a chaotic scene at the plant when the first of nine trailers storing a highly flammable compound ignited on Aug. 31.
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The exterior cladding on the tower — sheets of aluminum composite material, encasing a flammable polyethylene insulation — has been blamed for accelerating the fire's spread.
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When the refrigerator on the fourth floor burst into flames, the fire ignited the flammable cladding and shot up the side of the building.
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If you use more flammable materials such as cotton, add a fire-retardant spray to the costume and all of its bits and pieces.
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The illegal varieties are often laced with methanol, a flammable liquid used as a fuel that can lead to blindness or death when ingested.
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Elevated on a gurney, Susan lay inside a cardboard casket opened to her waist (California law requires that bodies be cremated in flammable boxes).
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Photographic film stock was first created by combining camphor with nitrocellulose, or "guncotton," an extremely flammable substance that made for a powerful blasting agent.
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The chemical plant is run by Arkema Group and contains organic peroxides, which need to be kept cool or else they become highly flammable.
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The flammable foam used to soundproof the venue caught fire, which quickly spread through the club, which at that moment housed about 400 people.
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"The flamethrower one came out after I left the FAA, and that's a little riskier because he's carrying flammable liquids on the aircraft," Williams said.
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The batteries are also filled with a flammable electrolyte, one that can combust when it heats up, then really get going once oxygen hits it.
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The project was pitched as a safer way than rail to transport the highly flammable oil extracted from the Bakken Shale formation in North Dakota.
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Although investigators have not confirmed what kind of cladding was used on Grenfell Tower, the Guardian reports that the cheaper, more flammable kind was used.
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Its ZKZM-500 laser assault rifle is reportedly capable of hitting a target from a kilometer away, igniting flammable objects, and burning through human skin.
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The Trump administration on Monday rolled back a safety rule that would have required trains carrying oil and other flammable materials to install special brakes.
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Two days before the fires began, Arkema reported, the heavy rain caused more than 26,000 pounds in spilled flammable organics in two tanks to overflow.
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Hotter and drier weather is a symptom of human-caused climate change, and that's making fires worse by leaving forests and other vegetation more flammable.
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The fragile, flammable nature of the power grid means that some residents are turning to solar power as a way to keep the lights on.
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It had to do with his father's cruelty, and the fragile, frightening nature of his ego, big as the Hindenburg and every bit as flammable.
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A public inquiry into the blaze is underway following initial reports that it spread throughout the residential tower because of flammable cladding used as insulation.
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They'll look at how best to handle "fuel management," or the removal of flammable plant matter desiccated by climate change-powered heat waves and drought.
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And if any of those bright blue flames come in contact with lava, Stovall said that the highly flammable gas could trigger a massive explosion.
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A public inquiry into the blaze is underway following initial reports it quickly spread throughout the residential tower because of flammable cladding used as insulation.
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The storage of flammable gas and liquids will be prohibited and fire officials will continue inspecting the store at least once a month, he added.
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Hillsborough police said a bottle containing flammable material ignited after being thrown through a front window of the headquarters between midnight and about 9 a.m.
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Blizzards of sparks from an advancing fire act on the structure itself and on the flammable material -- shrubs, mulch and pine needles --immediately around it.
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While there is a way to bleed empty tankers of flammable gasses, Brennan said there's no publicly available information to indicate they had done so.
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That vent was about a mile east of the Puna Geothermal Venture plant, where officials removed 60,000 gallons of flammable liquids due to safety concerns.
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But the material was flammable, and it ignited when it was blown over a hot electric light, the Shihlin District Court said in its ruling.
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Restrictions on grazing also inevitably harm ecosystems because we do not have a good alternative for preventing the overgrowth of unpalatable and highly flammable vegetation.
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By Wednesday evening, Mr. Brown said investigators had concluded that the fire was "definitely arson" after discovering "some type of solvent or flammable substance" inside.
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On Sunday, a bottle of flammable liquid was thrown into the building housing the North Carolina Orange County GOP headquarters, according to The Charlotte Observer.
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Parris also cites the "three Ds" — referring specifically to flare stacks used to burn off the flammable gas from drilling operations in the Bering Sea.
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According to the report, the armor is more lightweight than other suits used by police, and provide better protection against knives, bullets, and flammable objects.
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"There is a grave risk and danger as there are other tanks and there are flammable chemicals and materials within the plant area," it said.
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This means they most likely use the same dangerous, highly flammable lithium-ion battery that AirPods use, which regularly start fires in electronic recycling facilities.
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Low-cost flammable cladding installed on the outside of Grenfell Tower helped the fire race up the side of the building at an unimaginable speed.
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The cladding was made from a product called Reynobond PE, panels of aluminum with a polyethylene plastic core that the lawsuit describes as highly flammable.
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The government has been slow to look at other types of flammable coverings that may be putting at least 220 additional apartment towers in danger.
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The creative solutions used to dispose of flammable nitrate stock resulted in the inadvertent preservation of 500 films — forgotten reels were excavated in the 1970s.
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A months-long government investigation found an overheated container of highly flammable dry nitrocellulose caused the initial blast, with ensuing fires burning uncontrolled for days.
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People should clear their properties of any flammable vegetation, while any broken roof tiles should be repaired to protect houses from airborne embers, it said.
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When early Europeans tried to copy Aboriginal techniques by lighting fires, they made the fires too hot, and got even more of the flammable scrub.
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Critics of the material have warned for years that aluminum surface sheets can melt in a fire, after which flames could race through flammable insulation.
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Promising to cut "red tape," business-friendly politicians evidently judged that cost concerns outweighed the risks of allowing flammable materials to be used in facades.
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The head of Canada's transportation regulator said last month that stronger tank cars for transporting flammable liquids should be required sooner than a 2025 deadline.
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Within a week, some 244,000 gallons (227,124 liters) of the highly flammable chemical pentane, which was stored at the plant, were moved from harm's way.
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Police said surveillance video from inside the train showed the man pouring the flammable liquid out on the train's floor and setting it on fire.
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Extraction is not the most simple process—it can actually be quite dangerous since it involves flammable chemicals—so it's best left to the pros.
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TMZ has learned the perfume is considered a "flammable/hazardous material" because of its alcohol content and can't be shipped by FedEx and other carriers.
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Tailing ponds aren't flammable, Klassen said, but it is possible for the oil sands to burn if the fire reaches areas where it is mined.
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She declined to say if Celotex had ever passed the BS 8414 test with a flammable façade panel such as Reynobond PE. Editing by Anna Willard
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Erica and George Cruz filed the suit claiming the production company kept "highly flammable equipment" in the basement of their Harlem building while filming Motherless Brooklyn.
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The Puna Geothermal Venture plant, which uses volcanic heat to make electricity, has also been shut down, and 60,000 gallons of highly flammable liquid was relocated.
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Early hall deckers need to be especially cautious: the longer your cut tree is up, the higher the risk of it becoming too dry and flammable.
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It was the oak-beamed roof above the vaults that proved to be both so flammable, and so difficult for the fire brigade to get to.
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In America, the EPA came to much the same conclusion, and has banned all flammable refrigerants except R-1234yf and R-152a (a possible future alternative).
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The company has even formulated versions of the product that are not flammable and have a GWP of less than one (ie, lower than carbon dioxide).
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The idea is simple: instead of using flammable liquid electrolytes, make electrolytes out of solid materials; a solid battery is less likely to burst into flame.
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"Reports of civilians rummaging through the rubble of destroyed buildings to salvage any flammable material that can be used for cooking are common," the report said.
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This crude condensate, which is used to make products like petrol, jet fuel, and heating fuels, is colorless and odorless, but more flammable than conventional oil.
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When illegal pyrotechnics set off by his band ignited flammable plastic foam on the club's walls, the resulting blaze killed 100 patrons of the overcrowded club.
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Flammable materials stored on the factory floor, a gas leak, excessive use of gas and poorly positioned boilers are all being looked at as possible reasons.
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Responding to criticism that the testing program was not running quickly enough, he said landlords must get potentially flammable building materials tested as soon as possible.
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Opinion is mixed, but most agree that e-cigarettes are considerably safer than their flammable counterparts—one estimate suggests that they are only 5% as risky.
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A demonstrator was shot point-blank by a police officer, and one man was doused with a flammable liquid and set aflame after scolding rowdy protesters.
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Fans burn sports gear Some NFL fans reacted directly to what their teams did this week during the anthem, some with reactions of the flammable kind.
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The Industrial Packaging Safety Alliance, known as PackSafe, is appealing to lawmakers for help getting the Obama administration to update its safety regulations for flammable liquids.
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Because if someone does smoke in there, they have a place to put the cigarette other than the trash bin, which is full of flammable paper.
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Among the most promising candidates, according to Grejtak, is California-based Blue Current, which is working on a high density, low flammable battery using gel electrolytes.
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Zinc batteries aren't anything new — standard alkaline batteries use the element — and are known to be safe because they use water rather than flammable organic liquids.
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"Incendiary weapons produce heat and fire through the chemical reaction of a flammable substance, causing excruciatingly painful burns that are difficult to treat," its report said.
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"There is no ingredient in Pantene that is flammable in that manner; I couldn't even begin to give you a theory!" says cosmetic chemist Ni'Kita Wilson.
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Exploding batteries in consumer products are, unfortunately, nothing new — see dozens of exploding hoverboards, not to mention Samsung and its flammable Galaxy Note7 debacle in 2016.
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While cars, obviously, contain other flammable materials, he was specifically worried that at high temperatures 1234yf emitted hydrogen fluoride, which is dangerous if inhaled or touched.
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Vertoe, for instance, has a list of things that cannot be stored, including combustible, flammable, hazardous or toxic materials, chemicals, narcotics, fireworks, explosives, weapons and ammunition.
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In the early 2000s, fire marshals began requiring hospitals to remove or relocate dispensers because hand sanitizers contain at least 60 percent alcohol, making them flammable.
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Benzene, a toxic, flammable chemical found in crude oil and gasoline, is known to cause central nervous system damage and bone marrow damage, and is carcinogenic.
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The ship was carrying condensate, a highly flammable ultra-light crude, to deliver to South Korea when it collided with a Chinese freight ship on Saturday.
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It's made of non-flammable, non-allergenic materials and has a foldable base so you can easily store it away until the holidays return each year.
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Doors were locked, the club was at twice its legal capacity, and it was filled with flammable objects, like plastic palm trees and satin-lined ceilings.
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The famous pair of lions that guard its city center headquarters were daubed with graffiti and briefly set alight after being doused in a flammable liquid.
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"Preliminary observations indicate a lack of necessary safety measures and equipment at the factory, in addition to random storage of flammable materials," the government statement said.
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The service has replaced the highly flammable electrolyte in current lithium-ion batteries and created a power source that can be safely stored at varied temperatures.
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The famous pair of lions that guard its city center headquarters were daubed with graffiti and briefly set alight after being doused in a flammable liquid.
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"Unscrupulous Chinese entrepreneurs are flooding world markets with a range of bone-crushing, cancer-causing, flammable, poisonous, and otherwise lethal products, foods, and drugs," he warns.
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The artist laid out a flammable five-pointed star and, after lighting it, lay down in the center, where she passed out due to smoke inhalation.
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Other countries, including Germany and America, had banned the flammable cladding used on Grenfell; Britain's building regulations say it should only be used on low-rise buildings.
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After it emerged that flammable external cladding may have helped the Grenfell fire to spread, the government ordered a review of cladding on other blocks in England.
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When he was a kid, Styropyro—whose real name is Drake Anthony—and a friend used to create a gooey flammable paste by dissolving styrofoam in acetone.
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Officials removed roughly 50,000 gallons of pentane, a flammable gas similar to lighter fluid used in power generation at the plant, to an off-site industrial park.
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It even includes firefighters from Australia and New Zealand, underscoring that battling blazes to protect lives, property, and our increasingly flammable forests is a huge team effort.
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The explosions left plastic surgeons working around the clock to treat the injured, many of whom had also inhaled the flammable powder, leaving them with internal damage.
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One lucky child gets to be the Lucia bride, wearing a crown with lit candles (yes, this tradition is both flammable and weirdly patriarchal, but quite nice).
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The company had to create something that would meet safety requirements, such as ensuring the suits aren't flammable and would keep passengers safe during intense G forces.
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The plant contains thousands of gallons of flammable chemicals, which—if they catch fire—could spark an explosion with a blast radius of up to a mile.
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Lithium-ion batteries rely on a flammable liquid called the electrolyte to help move charged particles called ions from one side of the battery to the other.
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"We set up a fortified room in the house by putting sandbags to block the only window and we removed everything dangerous or flammable," Abu Maher said.
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From a lack of fire alarms, sprinkler systems and fire doors to not separating flammable materials from the factories' boiler rooms, the unions listed numerous safety lapses.
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Improving batteries takes three main tacks: avoiding flammable liquids for a solid battery; making battery components fireproof; and, boringly, modifying slightly the existing features in a battery.
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"Organic peroxides are extremely flammable and, as agreed with public officials, the best course of action is to let the fire burn itself out," the company announced.
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He sprays the victim, 54-year-old David Wicks, and floor with a flammable liquid, lights him on fire and walks out from behind the store counter.
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They credited fire breaks — areas cleared of flammable trees and vegetation between forested areas and buildings — for helping restrain the blaze&aposs advance toward homes and condos.
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After an inspection — and a brief panic when the seller held the highly flammable nitrate film perilously close to a light — Mr. Silver decided to buy it.
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Thomas Prendergast, chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs Metro North, last week demanded an investigation into whether flammable materials should be stored under rail tracks.
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Our summers are still hot and dry; the flora remains highly flammable, and these factors provide an opportunity for anyone drawn to waging relatively effort-free destruction.
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The fire is suspected to have been stoked by the building's flammable exterior cladding, which was used to cut costs during a recent refurbishment of the building.
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These fires are part of a vicious cycle in which overgrazing by cattle and sheep causes the widespread invasion of highly flammable, non-native weeds like cheatgrass.
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This month, swap out that effervescent symbol for a flamboyant, flammable torch dildo you can use when you personally take the White House castle during the night.
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ZURICH, Aug 13 (Reuters) - A man armed with a knife and flammable fluid injured six people in an attack on a Swiss train on Saturday, authorities said.
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A 24-year-old man who was allegedly "planning to use flammable chemical material" in a "hostile act" against the U.S. embassy in Cairo was arrested Tuesday.
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Around the nation's wildfire hot zones, the phrase "defensible space" (hashtag #defensiblespace) is now commonplace shorthand for clearing flammable brush and litter around homes in certain ways.
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Police said the items found also included batons, bottles and cans presumed to be filled with flammable liquid, containers with unknown powder or chemicals, and gas masks.
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Put this line to any average Canadian and they'll probably agree—unless you're asking an Albertan, who'll probably bet hard on another century of the flammable stuff.
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Black Rock is a well-worn stomping ground for amateur rocketry due to its expansive, barren lake bed that lacks any signs of life or flammable materials.
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But at the heart of current lithium-ion batteries is a highly flammable liquid electrolyte — the material that conducts lithium ions between electrodes during charging and discharging.
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"The explosions regularly involved the ejection of a burning battery case or other components from the device which subsequently ignited nearby flammable or combustible material," FMCSA said.
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The Royal Institute of British Architects expressed concerns that a post-Grenfell government review of building regulations will stop short of banning flammable cladding on residential towers.
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By mid-afternoon, the city's fire department was working with PES in its response to the fire, though it was letting the flammable gases burn under control.
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The approach largely consists of making sure that flammable plants and materials stay far away from homes — a good idea that other fire hazard areas could adopt.
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The one exception may be the Build With Strength coalition, which fought mass timber's inclusion in the IBC, characterizing it as rickety, highly flammable, and environmentally unsustainable.
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Working out when droughts cause wildfires, for example, is tricky because lower rainfall not only makes vegetation drier and hence more flammable, but also slows its growth.
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Morrison has stoked widespread public anger by refusing to directly link the bushfires to climate change, insisting removing flammable vegetation is "just as important, if not more".
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British regulations may seek to limit the spread of the flames by requiring builders to divide potentially flammable cladding with fireproof barriers at horizontal or vertical intervals.
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The London police on Friday blamed flammable materials used in the facade for the spread of the blaze and said the investigation could bring charges of manslaughter.
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"Organic peroxides are extremely flammable and, as agreed with public officials, the best course of action is to let the fire burn itself out," the company said.
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When flammable rivers and smog-choked cities were no longer a necessary evil just to get by, we could focus on getting the goods with fewer costs.
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Many of the patents for better trees start with the idea that trees are flammable, and we increase the risk of fire by covering them in electronics.
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For all those patiently waiting for your "not-flamethrowers" from the Boring Company — Musk said the company would start personally delivering the highly flammable devices in two weeks.
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Here is one example (pretty over the top): Ethanol is flammable and therefore unsuitable for large quantities to be on public display, and formalin gives off hazardous fumes.
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The ship, which was carrying 136,000 tonnes or almost a million barrels of condensate - an ultra-light, highly flammable crude oil - sank after several explosions weakened the hull.
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The Boltons and Greyjoys lose leaders, the Lannisters embrace some familial reconciliation, and children with breath so bad it's flammable are given a chance to spread their wings.
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Officials on Thursday successfully relocated about 60,000 gallons of highly flammable chemicals from a power plant where lava is continuing to seep across parts of Hawaii's Big Island.
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Evidence was all around—in the wasteland, the rubble and the gum leaves of highly flammable eucalyptus trees, "thousands of fingers pointing the way the fire had gone".
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You take a loaded topic and dissect it until it's innocuous, whereas, historically, comedy tends to take something banal, like airline peanuts, and make it into something flammable.
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The men were charged after prosecutors said they turned the warehouse into a death trap by cluttering it with highly flammable materials and failing to make it safe.
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The fire spread quickly due to what officials said was a perfect combination of weather, topography and abundant vegetation turned into highly flammable fuel by years of drought.
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An explosion erupted on a highway near the Bologna airport in northern Italy after a tanker truck carrying flammable material burst into flames, according to the Associated Press.
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Police said up to 70 people were injured when a truck carrying flammable cargo exploded after a traffic accident in Borgo Panigale, located on the outskirts of Bologna.
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Sessions' letter also said 17 extraction labs — which typically use flammable solvents to isolate THC from marijuana to make concentrates known as "wax" and "shatter" — exploded in 2014.
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The ship, which had been carrying 136,000 tonnes - almost 1 million barrels - of condensate, an ultra-light, highly flammable crude oil, sank after several explosions weakened the hull.
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Seven police, fire and emergency medical technicians sued Arkema in Harris County District Court alleging that negligence led flammable organic peroxides to ignite after the plant lost power.
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Instead it is solid-state, which the company claims is less flammable, has a wider range of operating temperatures, and lasts much longer than standard lithium-ion batteries.
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Van Gameren, 35, who is Dutch, was experimenting with flammable materials for performance-based installations; Simpson, 34, who is British, made pieces that played with timing and suspense.
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The debris includes household hazardous waste that California Department of Toxic Substances Control spokeswoman Abbott Dutton said can be batteries, paints, flammable liquids, asbestos siding and pipe insulation.
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Both ANZ Terminals and GrainCorp provide port-side bulk liquid storage services to store liquids including edible oils, tallow, non-flammable industrial chemicals and base oils for customers.
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Two other firefighters and a worker on a tanker were killed by the blast, which occurred after a pipeline of flammable material was cut, and 30 were injured.
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"When carried out on an open bench using a flammable solvent, the rainbow demonstration is a high-risk operation," committee Chairman Robert Hill Jr. said at the time.
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Four years later, late-night rumors that flammable gas was leaking from a plant sent thousands of people fleeing, and four people were killed in a traffic accident.
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Signaling his own flammable personality and, perhaps, the need for self-restraint, it stood out, like his talent, in a sea of more toned-down sweat sopper-uppers.
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They are also being told to turn the cooktop off at the circuit breaker and to not leave empty cookware or flammable material on or near the cooktop.
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The French government is putting up a brave face on all that, ready not to yield on labor market reforms and other politically flammable issues in the pipeline.
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Take the case of Dow Chemical Company, which in 1965 accepted a $5 million Department of Defense contract to manufacture the flammable gel napalm during the Vietnam War.
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Yet he moves the reader with unexpectedly tender portraits of some of the peripheral characters, notably a vampirelike homeless boy called Lestat and Cheri Blossom, the flammable stripper.
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Saleh Hendra, 41, another volunteer, said the hardest part of the job was trying to tackle stubborn fires on peatland, which is especially flammable and can repeatedly reignite.
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"Organic peroxides are extremely flammable and, as agreed with public officials, the best course of action is to let the fire burn itself out," the company said Thursday.
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The blaze broke out early in the morning on June 21st when an elbow pipe most likely failed, allowing flammable fluid containing propane and other chemicals to escape.
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The ship, which was carrying 136,000 tonnes or almost 1 million barrels of condensate - an ultra-light, highly flammable crude oil - sank after several explosions weakened the hull.
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Another hazard was the potential for methane gas explosions as searing lava neared pockets of rotting vegetation, igniting traces of the flammable gas given off by the decay.
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Joss paper goods are now such a cultural presence that Gucci sent a legal warning to a couple of stores for selling flammable knockoffs of its luxury wares.
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Local governments could also consider buying out property owners in especially flammable areas, much as some have done with those who own property on flood plains, says Mr Miller.
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She tears off her own legs and arms to solve simple physics puzzles; she immolates herself to break through flammable barriers and carries the fire on her own flesh.
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The flammable siding has also been blamed for the rapid spread of the blaze at Grenfell Tower in London, where at least 80 people were killed this past June.
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A tanker truck carrying flammable gas exploded last week near the northern city of Bologna after smashing into a stopped truck, killing one person and injuring dozens of others.
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They both involve heating, rather than burning, waste until it breaks down into a flammable mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, called syngas, and residual char, ash or slag.
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The public inquiry has established that a flammable cladding system fitted to external walls during a recent refurbishment was the key factor in the unstoppable spread of the fire.
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When firefighters responded, they encountered a horrific scene: A young woman who'd been set on fire with a flammable liquid was walking towards them, clothed only in her underwear.
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You know you're doomed, because all that stands between you and 500 tons of steel and highly flammable fuel is the thin glass window of your high-rise office.
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Many of the other items I saw were in the bridal category, looked flammable, felt too desperate, had Playboy bunnies on the butt, or reminded me of Halloween costumes.
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Because it is better than current battery tech and can maintain an energy density of 400 Wh/kg, it's non-flammable, and it can be manufactured inside existing factories.
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A report by fire safety engineer Barbara Lane listed multiple safety failings, including the flammable aluminum-and polyethylene cladding installed on the tower&aposs facade during a recent renovation.
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Instead of an arc reactor embedded in Browning's chest, the propulsion suit is powered by highly flammable liquid fuel that Browning carries in custom suit equipped with fuel bladders.
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It was envisioned as a safer way to transport highly flammable oil extracted from the Bakken Shale formation in North Dakota, Montana and parts of Canada than on trains.
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She had been lit on fire with a flammable liquid, causing burns covering 93 percent of her body, and would die after being airlifted to a hospital in Memphis.
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These electrolytes, called "ionic liquids," need a lot more heat to form flammable gas, says Surya Moganty, a chemical engineer who is the chief technology officer of Nohms Technology.
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"Like other aerosol products, this dry shampoo is flammable, so please exercise care: avoid fire, flame, or smoke during use, and protect from sunlight or heat," the email read.
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Among CSX's changes, demurrage fees for cars carrying flammable materials will rise to $2003 per day from $175, and to $150 a day from $105 for non-hazmat cars.
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Fire propagates just like it always has in Far Cry games — but since the civilization of 10,000 B.C. is little more than groupings of thatched huts, everything is flammable.
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No combustable, flammable items should be left inside the venue: wood, curtains, paper—anything that can catch fire should be removed or treated with fire-retardant paint or spray.
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The 57-year-old driver doused himself in a flammable liquid and then lit his clothing while sitting in a taxi near parliament, police and the fire department said.
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That agency would evaluate and remove hazardous debris, which can range from asbestos siding or pipe insulation to paints, batteries, flammable liquids and electronic waste like computers and monitors.
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And zillions of people will be excited to see 2017 models, like the tenth anniversary iPhone and the (presumably) non-flammable Samsung Galaxy Note 8 (or whatever it's called).
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While cooking, avoid wearing loose clothing or long sleeves that can catch on fire, and keep flammable items like potholders and paper or plastic bags away from the stove.
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Its aluminum cladding, added in a 2012 refurbishment, proved so flammable that it turned the tower into a "death trap," a lawyer representing the survivors told the public inquiry.
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A government watchdog agency cited Saratov Airlines for safety concerns in December, but its report focused on the storage of flammable materials on the ground, not on its airplanes.
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It was the St. Cuthbert, a floating incendiary device whose cargo holds had been badly packed in Belgium with fusel oil solvent, paraffin wax, matches and other flammable materials.
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Hours earlier, Robert Black, the head of the management company that ran the 24-story building and oversaw a renovation that included the installation of flammable cladding, also resigned.
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The fire became a political crisis and a symbol of inequality in a wealthy neighborhood after cladding used on the outside of the building was found to be flammable.
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Mankind's methods for conjuring and harnessing fire have remained largely the same since the caveman days—rub two things together to make a spark, ignite flammable material, enjoy fire.
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At the most basic level, regular controlled burning of forests can help prevent dangerous wildfires by clearing out the flammable leaves, shrubs, and sticks that line the forest floor.
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The complaint alleged that IOI had illegally chopped down rainforests in the Indonesian province of West Kalimantan and planted oil palms on peatlands, which are drained and then highly flammable.
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In that case, it appears that the Grenfell Tower cladding may have violated regulations, and the Dubai government has also acknowledged the risk of installing flammable cladding on tall buildings.
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The foam is typically used in facilities where there are highly flammable liquids, as it helps to smother mixtures like fuels so that oxygen can't reach and feed a fire.
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When condensate meets water, it evaporates quickly and can cause large-scale explosion as it reacts with air and turns into a flammable gas, the transportation ministry said on Monday.
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Prosecutors say the two defendants turned the warehouse into a "death trap" by cluttering it with highly flammable knick knacks and blocking the few exits in the poorly lit building.
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A little over half of Halma's sales came from companies which hire it for its infrastructure and process safety equipment which monitors fire hazard and detects flammable and hazardous gases.
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But robust defensive fire lines and intelligent clearing of flammable brush — a method of fire prevention Montecito takes seriously — would almost certainly have helped the now-gutted town of Paradise.
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Clothing, bedding, bandages, and other fabric can become flammable when they absorb the cream, meaning they are highly dangerous if exposed to a naked flame or other sources of heat.
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One major focus of criticism has been directed at authorities' decision to use a highly flammable cladding on the facade of the building in an effort to "beautify" the neighborhood.
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Xella says it is one of the world's leading manufacturers of aerated concrete blocks, calcium-silicate units and non-flammable mineral insulation boards with brands including Ytong, Hebel and Silka.
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As the winds continue to blow, a dome of warm, high-pressure air is forming over the West Coast that could keep California dry and flammable for weeks to come.
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She said officials had been concerned about this particular building since 2010, but decided to act now after seeing how fire could spread rapidly via a flammable cladding or facade.
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" The proximity of the fire apparently made her performance way more realistic, Ingram said, but "it wasn't until after that shot that they told me my costume was anti-flammable.
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The fire broke out on Thursday at the Eco Special Waste Management plant in the Tuas industrial district, bordering Malaysia, fueled by chemical waste and other flammable materials, officials said.
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There are also concerns that the lava -- which has covered an area of land equal to about 100 football fields -- could hit a geothermal plant where flammable liquids are stored.
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Investigators discovered several problems with the Apollo capsule design that led to the fire, including an electrical wiring issue, a pure-oxygen environment and flammable materials throughout the crew cabin.
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This can make the forest ever more vulnerable to fire through the buildup of flammable materials and the coalescence of fire-scarred ecosystems across broad swaths of the entire basin.
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Record warmth and near-record warmth in most of the state has created flammable conditions from the Canadian border in the east to the Bering Sea coast in the west.
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Today, it was Coney Island's own Lance Stephenson, who mostly serves as highly flammable gift-wrap for a first-round pick the Clippers sent them in exchange for Jeff Green.
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The head of fire department in Shiraz, Mohammad Farokhzadeh, told state television that a gas leak or an explosion of flammable items stored in the supermarket could be the cause.
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"He was strapped with some homemade incendiary devices, some firecrackers and doused himself with some kind of flammable liquid and attempted to set himself on fire," Captain Perry told reporters.
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Those include whether it would be safe to put lots of laptops and their potentially flammable lithium batteries in planes' cargo holds, where a fire could spark and rage unchecked.
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Investigators blamed flammable siding for the first fire there, echoing the cause of a blaze at Grenfell Tower in London that killed more than 80 people in London in June.
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"If the police are coming to beat us, we are ready for war," Calvin Otieng, a Kisumu resident, shouted, waving a plastic bottle filled with flammable liquid, his eyes bloodshot.
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The Canada-based company Buoyant Aircraft Systems International is developing gas bags designed to carry hydrogen, and Moscow-based RosAeroSystems created a chemical additive capable of making hydrogen less flammable.
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Phase 2 of the inquiry, expected to last about two years, will seek to establish how, why and by whom the decision to install the flammable cladding system was made.
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The German city of Wuppertal on Tuesday evacuated about 80 people from an 103-story apartment tower "for fire safety reasons" after "flammable material was found," a local official said.
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Vox's Eliza Barclay has explained that as temperature continues to rise, the land grows more arid, thus making trees and shrubs more flammable — raking would do nothing to change that.
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It admitted that it told its staff how to cover up problems for federal inspections, including by replating damaged ceiling tiles with painted cardboard and hiding improperly stored flammable materials.
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It was carrying 136,000 tonnes of condensate, an ultra light crude that is highly flammable and to South Korea, equivalent to about 1 million barrels and worth about $60 million.
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The program, known as FireMap, pulls together real-time information about topography, flammable materials and weather conditions, among other variables, from giant government data sets and on-the-ground sensors.
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As the temperature increases in spring and summer and plants use up the water stored in the soil, the amount of water held in plants decreases, making them more flammable.
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"Higher and higher temperatures are leading to ever greater droughts, and high humidity in the winter means that shrubbery grows quickly, creating an easily flammable material in dry summers," he said.
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Police looked into the online threats in 2013, but the newspaper declined at the time to press charges for fear that doing so "would exacerbate an already flammable situation," Altomare said.
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"At night the fire spread to other floors where huge amounts of chemicals and other flammable items were stored for use in packaging," Bhoumik told Reuters from the site by phone.
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The government said it would all be removed and replaced, but more than two years later, many people are still living in buildings sheathed in the same kind of flammable material.
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A blue tent covered in 102 patchwork squares that chronicle the names of all the people she'd ever shared a bed with, the highly flammable synthetic fabric never stood a chance.
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Camden council, in north London, was one of the first to try to move residents out of towers with the flammable aluminium-composite cladding, in the days after the Grenfell fire.
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This was entirely avoidable because the same paneling with a less-flammable mineral core could have been used at a cost that some estimate to have been as little as £5,000.
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The blazing vessel, which was carrying 136,000 tonnes - almost one million barrels - of condensate, an ultra-light, highly flammable crude oil, sank on Sunday evening after several explosions weakened the hull.
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But, stepping onto the third floor and finding myself surrounded on all sides by highly flammable trees and bushes, I realise that the purpose of the fire mage was very simple.
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Inside this architecture, engineers construct the SLS boosters and concoct the propellant, which begins as a Play-Doh-like pseudoliquid and hardens into the consistency of a (highly flammable) pencil eraser.
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Distinct from deforestation, forest degradation is the process of felling just the valuable trees in a forest and leaving behind flammable tree limbs and debris, creating a ground zero for wildfires.
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The lake's still waters also hide another face: dissolved within are billions of cubic meters of flammable methane and more still of carbon dioxide, the result of volcanic gases seeping in.
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"Had Iran's boats fired on MT BRITISH HERITAGE it could have caused a major catastrophe if the empty tanker's cargo tanks were filled with flammable vapors," Brennan wrote to Business Insider.
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Our public lands are deprived of vital investments in conservation, land management, recreation and watershed protection and critically, hazardous fuel reduction to thin out dense tree stands and reduce flammable underbrush.
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The office was struck late Saturday night by a bottle containing flammable material that was thrown through one of the building's front windows, according to a statement by the Hillsborough police.
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CFCs are a family of non-toxic, non-flammable chemical compounds developed in the 1930s as a safe alternative to dangerous substances such as ammonia for refrigeration and spray can propellants.
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Other risk mitigation measures, Witter said, include improving homes in at-risk zones by "hardening" them — making the structures more resilient to fire by using non-flammable building materials, for example.
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The new law prohibits members of Parliament from entering the chamber with "explosive materials, ammunition of all types, training or imitation ammunition, flammable liquids or solid substances or fireworks." video video
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Solid-state batteries, which will charge up to six times faster and have no flammable liquid, will have twice the energy density and a life span of up to 10 years.
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Solid-state batteries, which would charge up to six times faster and have no flammable liquid, could have twice the energy density and a life span of up to 10 years.
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Chief Terrazas, who studied that fire early on in his career, said it inspired the strict brush-clearing regulations as well as a ban on using flammable wood shingles on homes.
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What We Found But by April of this year, fewer than 2300 of the buildings ordered fixed had been taken care of, with 210 of them still bearing flammable aluminum cladding.
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"The big concern is that we're starting to see a new normal, where fires, deforestation, drought and climate change are all interacting to make the Amazon more flammable," Ms. Weisse said.
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The trailers were moved to the highest ground on the property, and as far as possible from tanks of sulfur dioxide, a highly corrosive gas, and isobutylene, a highly flammable one.
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Another critical area of renewed focus should be the use of controlled burns, the intentional ignition of fires to reduce dried vegetation and other flammable materials that can serve as fuel.
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A bag that the 24-year-old man was carrying caught on fire and was later found to contain a plastic bottle with flammable material inside it, according to the statement.
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When all this heat hits a highly flammable material like lithium-ion electrolyte next to the oxygen-rich cathode in the battery, you've got a flaming electronic device on your hands.
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But as early as 223, after a fire in Irvine, Scotland, British fire safety engineers warned Parliament that the advent of flammable cladding had opened a dangerous loophole in the regulations.
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They said LNG - natural gas that is super-cooled into a liquid for transportation - sent by rail raises the risk of spills that can form highly flammable ground-hugging vapor clouds.
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The next phase of the inquiry is expected to focus on the underlying cause of the disaster: flammable exterior cladding and insulation that allowed the fire to engulf the tower quickly.
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As The Houston Chronicle has documented, no state is spared from having at least one facility that could have toxic or flammable chemical accidents with consequences that extend beyond the site.
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And there were conflicts over who should pay for its upkeep, delaying much-needed maintenance, like removing flammable dust or waxing the wooden roof structure to prevent it from drying out.
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The blazing vessel, which had been carrying 136,000 tonnes - almost one million barrels - of condensate, an ultra-light, highly flammable crude oil, sank on Sunday after several explosions weakened the hull.
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In sum, environmental groups do want to stop certain types of logging, but many of the highly flammable trees stay rooted in forests because it's not cost-effective to bring them down.
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On July 6, 2013, an unmanned train carrying ultra-flammable western crude plummeted into the downtown of 22015,2111-resident Lac-Mégantic, where it erupted in flames and flattened everything in its path.
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On July 24.5, 20.049, an unmanned train carrying ultra-flammable western crude plummeted into the downtown of 20.227,000-resident Lac-Mégantic, where it erupted in flames and flattened everything in its path.
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Spontaneous ignitions can occur when flammable materials, such as piles of hay, compost or manure heat up to a temperature high enough to cause combustion, according to the US National Park Service.
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The agency ran a series of experiments, placing laptops inside typical suitcases next to your standard flammable toiletries: nail polish remover, hand sanitizer, and most explosively, an aerosol can of dry shampoo.
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My house is an extremely flammable shrine to the art of cork ornamentation, and when I need a new cork fix, I like to browse the many fine products available at www.corkornaments.com.
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All nine trailers at the Harvey-wrecked chemical site, which were filled with highly flammable organic peroxides that require refrigeration, have now burned, the Harris County Fire Marshal's office said Sunday night.
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Matt Wrack, the chief of Britain's main firefighters' union, said in a Twitter post on Tuesday that "firefighters did not put flammable cladding on Grenfell Tower," but risked their lives in it.
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Weather conditions have increased the risk of wildfires, so special caution has to be taken with the use of any flammable materials that could cause embers to drift and fires to start.
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Lady Gaga's illustrious career and knack for unconventional style has inspired wax sculptors around the world to spend countless hours carving and shaping lifelike (and highly flammable) replicas of her greatest looks.
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In the reports, railroads would have to include estimates of the number of so-called high hazard flammable trains expected to travel through counties in states, and the routes for the trains.
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A pipeline carrying flammable raffinate - used for the production of various chemicals such as solvents or plasticisers - appears to have been cut, local police and state prosecutors said in a joint statement.
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The company claims that its new electrolytes can work the same as a cathode; are conductive at room temperature, can be more stable, less flammable, and can be produced in high volumes.
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The heavy fuel oil is also flammable, and could burn if exposed to the condensate fire—surface slicks at the Deepwater Horizon spill were treated with burning agents to reduce their size.
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Getty Images Aimee Bender is the author of quirky novels such as The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake and short story collections like The Girl in the Flammable Skirt and Willful Creatures.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's second most populous state Victoria pledged on Tuesday to spend A$600 million ($422 million) replacing flammable building cladding in the wake of London's fatal 2017 Grenfell Tower blaze.
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In some of those cases, experts said the speed at which the fires spread may have been due to the use of flammable cladding on the buildings' exteriors for decoration or insulation.
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The company, Tianjiayi Chemical Co -- which produces more than 30 organic chemical compounds, some highly flammable -- had a history of safety violations and had been punished repeatedly, state news agency Xinhua said.
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Shares of Arconic dropped more than 6 percent in early trading on Monday after Reuters reported the U.S. company formerly called Alcoa knowingly supplied flammable panels for use at London's Grenfell Tower.
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In London, we found that thousands of people are still living in firetraps because the government has been slow to remove the flammable cladding that caused Grenfell to burn like a torch.
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The flames raced in minutes up the sides of the 24-story building, and in its aftermath similarly flammable exterior cladding was found and removed from many other high-rises around Britain.
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Some clauses in the regulatory guidance had appeared to prohibit the use of exteriors as potentially combustible as the cladding used on Grenfell Tower, which contained flammable insulation between sheets of aluminum.
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Benzene, which is a natural part of crude oil and gasoline, is a colorless, flammable liquid with a sweet odor that is known to cause cancer, according to the American Cancer Society.
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The big picture: Spooked by a recent surge in destructive fires that shows no sign of cooling off, insurers have backed away from underwriting in the most flammable parts of the state.
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This weekend the government held an extraordinary cabinet meeting in the interior where the fires struck and unveiled tax breaks, investments and other measures to help clear the land of flammable undergrowth.
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Flames then rapidly engulfed the tower, mainly because it had been covered during a recent refurbishment with cladding made out of flammable aluminum composite material which acted as a source of fuel.
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The proposal would allow liquefied natural gas (LNG) to be transported in a wider variety of rail cars, increasing the amount of the highly flammable substance that can be moved by rail.
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The homes left standing shared some commonalities: they did not have flammable brush anywhere nearby, their trees were not trimmed, and they had placed small screens over their vents and other openings.
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The tanker Sanchi, owned by Iran's top oil shipping operator National Iranian Tanker Co, was carrying almost 1 million barrels of condensate, an ultra-light, highly flammable crude oil, to South Korea.
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The former is very flammable, which could be why only certain parts of Coffey Park (a Santa Rosa neighborhood that was destroyed) houses — like brick fireplaces and concrete floors — survived the fires.
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The company, Tianjiayi Chemical Co — which produces more than 30 organic chemical compounds, some highly flammable — had a history of safety violations and had been punished repeatedly, state news agency Xinhua said.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Insurers are considering raising premiums for tall buildings in Britain with flammable cladding panels and no sprinklers or even excluding related risks following the Grenfell fire in London earlier this year.
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Turns out the fumes from linseed oil are highly flammable ... the process of the oil turning into fumes creates heat, and the combo of that on rags is a fire waiting to happen.
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University of Maryland researchers at the A. James Clark School of Engineering created a new water-based zinc battery that uses an aqueous electrolyte instead of the flammable substance in lithium-ion batteries.
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Another thing that has dampened Carlsbad's appeal is the hydrogen sulfide in the air — a colorless, flammable and highly toxic gas that is released as part of oil and gas production and refining.
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This is flammable material, but late in Joker, it takes the form of a subway car packed with rowdy dudes in near-identical pop culture costumes, headed downtown to commit wanton property damage.
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Fires took others—silver nitrate, the compound in early film stock which makes the images shimmer, is so flammable that a tightly wound roll of such film can burn even submerged in water.
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The Xiamen Municipal Government said in a notice on Thursday that to ensure safety, flammable cargoes such as oil, chemicals and liquefied natural gas would be barred from entering the port from Aug.
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This followed the company's recall of the original Note 7 model due to problems with a flammable battery, and multiple reports that the supposedly safe replacement handsets given to users were also overheating.
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A company spokesperson told Gizmodo by email that these warehouses will be outfitted with special sprinkler systems as well as storage areas for different classifications of product, for example flammable and aerosol items.
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Half a dozen communities located in forest in the western province of Alberta were variously clearing out dead wood, pruning back the most flammable kinds of trees and banning open fires, officials said.
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He also created a novel quasi-ionic liquid electrolyte that isn't flammable, and has additional chemical modifications to the separator and cell design to stop it from negatively reacting with the lithium metal.
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The video for the song, directed Jason Lindner and Ben Searies, is a throwback to disco-era aesthetics, full of Cadillacs, dimly-lit clubs, and just about everything disco save for flammable polyester.
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These will act as sensors to monitor concentrations of flammable gas and temperature could be dropped behind the teams, keeping firefighters in-the-know about rooms in imminent danger of igniting or collapsing.
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The company, Tianjiayi Chemical Co - which produces more than 30 organic chemical compounds, some highly flammable - had been cited and fined for work safety violations in the past, the China Daily had reported.
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Nobody was injured and no property was damaged in the incidents, Boosted says, but in a warning posted on its official site it requests that owners move their boards away from flammable objects.
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Locals say they need government help to merge the plots into economically viable units that will give absentee owners an incentive to build firebreaks and clear highly flammable undergrowth and wild eucalyptus trees.
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In a "dieback" scenario, rising temperatures could dry trees, meaning they absorb less carbon and become more flammable, eventually turning the rainforest into a savannah and releasing billions of tons of stored carbon.
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The trial prospecting of the deep-sea gas resource, also known as "flammable ice", will be in the Shenhu area of the South China Sea, after initial tests run in May, CNPC said.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - A man who Egypt described as embracing "extremist ideas" was detained on Tuesday near the U.S. Embassy in central Cairo after a bottle containing flammable chemicals caught fire in his backpack.
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Years of drought created a surplus of dry vegetation California has been through five years of drought, leaving 102 million trees dead and dry, highly flammable vegetation upon thousands of acres, McLean said.
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So while the grazers are doing a helpful job of eating up some potential tinder, they're leaving behind vegetation that is extra-flammable—which is a mixed bag, in terms of wildfire prevention.
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When the teacher poured a flammable substance into a bowl of nitrate, the experiment went awry and caused an explosion, engulfing him in flames and landing him in the hospital for five months.
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State media reported the chemical that caused the explosion was benzene, a highly flammable and toxic compound classified as a carcinogen, adding that the pesticide factory failed a government safety inspection last year.
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Thin wooden sticks, bought by the kilo, are first laid on the conveyer belt of the sorting machine, which sorts and polishes the matches with a coating of wax, making the stick flammable.
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Costa's government is under pressure to show its efforts, which have included hiring hundreds of firefighters and clearing land of flammable undergrowth, are paying off to prevent a repeat of last year's tragedy.
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For example: Gordon wrapped Alice Cooper's 1972 vinyl record "School's Out" in flammable panties and sent them from Canada, knowing full well they would be stopped at the American border and cause a scene.
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The fire broke out in a five-story building that featured shops on the ground floor, a plastics warehouse with flammable materials on the first floor, and three floors of residential accommodation, officials said.
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"The key to fire and haze prevention in Indonesia centres on the question of how to restore flammable deforested peatlands back to the fire-proof system they once were," said climate scientist David Gaveau.
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The fire broke out at a party when the colored powder that was being thrown on partygoers turned out to be flammable and caught fire when it was blown over a hot electric light.
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According to Hillsborough police, someone threw flammable liquid through the window of the Orange County GOP office and spray-painted a swastika along with "Nazi Republicans leave town or else" on an adjacent building.
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Reducing wildfires and the pollution they produce will instead require years of coordinated effort to reduce flammable vegetation in wilderness areas and to rethink urban planning so people aren't building in fire-prone areas.
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Judith Hackitt says a new regulatory framework is needed to strengthen the system, though she stopped short of calling for a ban on flammable cladding that is believed to have contributed to the blaze.
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A bottle containing a flammable substance was thrown through a front window, where it ignited and damaged furniture and the office's interior, the statement said, adding that the fire went out on its own.
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Although tundra fires have burned sporadically in Alaska in the past, their frequency is increasing as temperatures rise, near-surface permafrost thaws and other forces make the low-lying plants more flammable, scientists say.
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The suspect poured a flammable liquid on the floor of a fast food restaurant and lit it, and a 14-year-old trying to escape the flames fell and suffered burns, the prosecutor said.
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But it now seems impolitic in the extreme to even mention that France has to deliver a socially and politically flammable fiscal austerity in a stagnant economy with a jobless rate of 10 percent.
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The fire was fed by flammable cladding on the facade of the building that survivors have charged was installed to beautify their public housing project for the benefit of wealthy neighbors in west London.
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"Had Iran's boats fired on MT BRITISH HERITAGE it could have caused a major catastrophe if the empty tanker's cargo tanks were filled with flammable vapors," a professor of maritime law told Business Insider.
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Elsewhere in the city, a pro-Beijing supporter was doused with a flammable liquid and set on fire after arguing with protesters in Ma On Shan, about 12 miles north of the business district.
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One promising 33M product is Novec, a non-flammable, non-conductive liquid fluorochemical that could be used to cool servers at data centers and which 3M also is testing for use in electric vehicles.
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It cited examples like the Tide Pod challenge, where social media users eat laundry detergent packets on camera, and the Fire challenge, in which people douse themselves in flammable liquid and set themselves alight.
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Inside a place of worship there are often flammable tapestries lining stone walls, and plenty of polished wood interior decorative surfaces, and sometimes a ceiling coated with centuries of burning votive candle wax residue.
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A flammable gas called pentane is used as part of the process, though officials earlier this month removed 50,000 gallons (190,000 liters) of the gas from the plant to reduce the chance of explosions.
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The tanker Sanchi (IMO:9356608), owned by Iran's top oil shipping operator National Iranian Tanker Co, was carrying almost 1 million barrels of condensate, an ultra-light, highly flammable crude oil, to South Korea.
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Israel says it has lost at least 7,000 acres (2,830 hectares) of farmland and forests to a recent surge in fires started by Gaza militants using such balloons and kites rigged with flammable material.
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There were also some design flaws that enabled the initial spark to ignite, and go unnoticed, and to incinerate nearby, highly-flammable materials, causing the fire to grow out of control in mere seconds.
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Moreover, when no controlled burning takes place to eliminate flammable brush and deadwood that has built up on forest floors, those forests become ripe for intense fires that are difficult or impossible to control.
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According to a statement on the town government website, a bottle filled with "flammable liquid" was thrown through the front window of the party office, burning some furniture and the interior of the building.
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Beyond apartment towers, more than 1,300 vulnerable buildings like hospitals, care homes, schools and hotels have flammable exteriors, Rockwool estimates, but are exempt from having to strip it because they are not high-rises.
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A bottle of flammable liquid was thrown into a building housing the Orange County GOP headquarters in Hillsborough, N.C., in what one state GOP official called an act of "political terrorism," the paper reported.
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Wednesday's proposal would specific increase the types of trains carrying oil and other highly flammable substances that would have to prepare comprehensive spill plans, many of which currently only have to prepare basic plans.
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A BSEE report in 2013 had cited welding in the presence of flammable gas as the reason behind an explosion of a Black Elk Energy offshore platform year earlier that that killed three people.
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"My understanding is the cladding in question, this flammable cladding which is banned in Europe and the U.S., is also banned here," Mr. Hammond said in an interview with Andrew Marr of the BBC.
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Last week, the London borough of Camden ordered the evacuation of 4,000 residents of a five-tower complex, Chalcots Estate, where the buildings were covered in the same flammable cladding used on Grenfell Tower.
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Builders in Britain were allowed to wrap residential apartment towers — perhaps several hundred of them — from top to bottom in highly flammable materials, a practice forbidden in the United States and many European countries.
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Dorney Tower, completed in 1967 and refurbished in 2008, shares several problematic features with Grenfell Tower, which was encased in a flammable exterior covering, known as cladding, that contributed to the fire's rapid spread.
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Authorities understand some people will want to defend their homes and they have developed check-lists which include having protective clothing and making sure a home is adequately prepared and free of flammable debris.
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Ivanka Trump, founder and CEO of the Ivanka Trump Collection, and one of her flammable scarves (Associated Press and CPSC)Roughly 20,000 Ivanka Trump brand scarves have been recalled for not meeting federal flammability standards.
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The new rules apply to High Hazard Flammable Trains transporting petroleum oil in a block of 20 or more loaded tank cars and trains that have a total of 35 loaded petroleum oil tank cars.
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Many palms, particularly the Washington fan variety, are highly flammable, so when brush fires pass nearby, they can bake these plants from down below and cause them to burst and rain fiery embers underneath. 2.
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Glenn Corbett, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, said the rapid spread of the blaze may have been caused by a flammable exterior material used in many Dubai buildings.
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But tests conducted by the Federal Aviation Administration found the suppression systems can't put out a battery fire that combines with other highly flammable material, such as the gas in an aerosol can or cosmetics.
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It's full of safety recommendations for general consumers (keep hoverboards away from flammable materials while charging, don't overcharge or charge it overnight, etc.) and information for manufacturers or distributors looking to get their product certified.
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Britain's government has already promised 400 million pounds ($500 million) for replacing flammable cladding on high-rise public housing blocks and 200 million pounds for replacing it on buildings whose owners refused to remove it.
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If the chemicals making up the anode and cathode — respectively, graphite and some type of metal oxide — heat up too intensely, it can break down the physical separator, which leaves the highly flammable electrolyte exposed.
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Feisty Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has fudged around the edges of politically flammable labor market legislation, while promoting a vote-grabbing tax relief in spite of Italy's huge public debt of 160 percent of GDP.
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A flammable material was used to start the fire, which took about 250 firefighters to extinguish and caused an estimated $30 million in damage to the structure of the Da Vinci complex alone, officials said.
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On April 2202, 2628, the FBI pumped CS gas and methyl chloride, a potentially lethal, flammable combination, into the Davidians' residence for six hours, disregarding explicit warnings that CS gas should not be used indoors.
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The creators of the battery have not revealed what exactly is in the battery's secret mixture, although they've said that it is not flammable and is simple "dropped into" the existing infrastructure of conventional batteries.
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This process allows the safe use of slightly flammable refrigerants that have a low GWP and in turn achieves high cooling capacity, minimizing the losses and achieving an optimized overall thermodynamic efficiency in the process.
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In April 2014, Amazon paid a $91,000 fine to the FAA after its employees improperly shipped a package in 2013 containing flammable liquid adhesive by air on Federal Express from Whitestown, Indiana, to Boulder, Colorado.
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Police in Hong Kong have imported a new type of anti-riot body armor from China which are said to be lightweight and bulletproof and can reportedly protect against attacks using sharp and flammable objects.
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"All other car manufacturers at the time had incorporated 1234yf, which is mildly flammable, into their designs, with modest design changes, and proven to themselves conclusively that they could safely use the product," he said.
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Also on Sunday, the Lebanese military claimed an Israeli drone had violated Lebanese airspace and set fields on fire by dropping flammable material that was quickly extinguished, according to the AP. View the discussion thread.
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Environmental and health impact The oil being transported was condensate oil, a type of colorless, ultralight crude oil that is more flammable than normal crude oil, meaning the tanker is at greater risk of exploding.
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HOUSTON, Sept 3 (Reuters) - The operators of a Crosby, Texas, chemical factory that ran out of electricity needed to keep flammable material refrigerated will burn the remaining trailers holding the substance, officials said on Sunday.
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Windows were blocked with metal grills, flammable objects covered staircases and one of the building's two exits was locked when the fire broke out, according to Atul Garg, the chief fire officer in New Delhi.
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But Ms. Hackitt's 159-page report stopped short of recommending a ban on flammable facades, particularly the kind of cladding that proved to be a critical element in the rapid spread of the Grenfell fire.
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"Nitrate Storage Cabinet Tests" (211), which was shot outdoors, shows reels of flammable nitrate film stocked in different types of cabinets; the museum was trying to determine the best way to store the combustible material.
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PG&E instigated the blackouts in response to dangerous weather conditions—strong seasonal winds primed to dry out vegetation and stoke wildfires—that could jostle power lines and other equipment, sending sparks onto flammable vegetation.
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Later in the day, a police officer appeared to drive his motorcycle into a crowd of people, and a man was doused in flammable liquid and set on fire after confronting a group of protesters.
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The fire was started by a tractor mowing grass on the property, which was allegedly covered in "dry annual grasses and scattered brush, which created a receptive bed of flammable vegetation," according to the suit.
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The Grenfell fire was started by a fridge-freezer but spread quickly, partly because of the use of flammable cladding panels which were afixed to the outside of the 24-storey building, experts have said.
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The fire started when a worker was testing a spark wheel which turned out to be faulty and caused large spark which quickly set ablaze a nearby gas cannister and other flammable materials, he said.
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In the midst of wooing Dancing with the Stars veteran and Famously Single cast mate Karina Smirnoff, Chad Johnson found out things don't always go according to plan — especially when your plan involves something so … flammable.
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The Sierra Nevada's mountainous terrain and dry, Mediterranean climate make controlling even a planned fire challenging, and a century's worth of fire suppression had left forests so flammable that the smallest spark might trigger an inferno.
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The lobbyist argued that consumers might hurt themselves if they accidentally puncture the flammable lithium-ion batteries in their phones, which could happen in the course of the easier repairs this bill was designed to enable.
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As a result, it acknowledges but does not go in depth into the underlying cause of the calamity: the dangerously flammable exterior of the 24-story building, which caused the fire to spread with deadly speed.
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The tanker, named Sanchi, was transporting 136,000 metric tons (or about 1 million barrels) of a flammable and toxic light crude oil, called condensate, when it crashed into a Chinese freight ship hauling grain on Jan.
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Robertson is also charged with one count of possession of a firearm by a felon and two counts of an unrelated arson, as well as one count of possession of flammable material, according to the statement.
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"We have been concerned for contractor and consumer safety with the risk of slightly flammable refrigerants leaking into people's homes," said Don Prather, technical services manager with the Air Conditioning Contractors of America, a trade group.
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"Further proceedings based on crude oil characteristics conflict with Congress' considered judgment to delay further regulation until the completion of ongoing studies on the transport of flammable materials," the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers told PHMSA.
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The backstory: A series of fiery oil-train crashes over the last few years prompted federal regulators to issue a rule, finalized in May 2015, strengthening requirements for trains hauling flammable material like oil and ethanol.
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These include the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Services (REMS) process at the FDA, as well as any number of other self-imposed, non-flammable "safety protocols," some of which have no discernible purpose beyond blocking competition.
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The Hawaii Star-Advertiser newspaper reported that a Hawaii-based utility, Puna Geothermal Venture, had 216,24.81 gallons (227,124 liters) of flammable pentane gas stored in the area that could not be removed until containers were delivered.
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The Hawaii Star-Advertiser newspaper reported that a Hawaii-based utility, Puna Geothermal Venture, had 60,000 gallons (227,124 liters) of flammable pentane gas stored in the area that could not be removed until containers were delivered.
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That economic disparity was brought into sharp focus after it became clear that cheap flammable cladding and insulation had been used on the exterior of the building as a cost-saving measure during a recent renovation.
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