Accession Number:

AD0701576

Title:

FLAMMABILITY CHARACTERISTICS OF COMBUSTIBLE GASES AND VAPORS

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

BUREAU OF MINES WASHINGTON DC

Personal Author(s):

• Zabetakis, Michael George

Report Date:

1965-01-01

Pagination or Media Count:

129.0

Abstract:

A summary is given of the available limit of flammability, autoignition, and burning-rate data for more than 200 combustible gases and vapors in air and other oxidants, as well as of empirical rules and graphs that can be used to predict similar data for thousands of other combustibles under a variety of environmental conditions. Specific data are presented on the paraffinic, unsatuarted, aromatic, and alicyclic hydrocarbons, alcohols, ethers, aldehydes, ketones, and sulfur compounds, and an assortment of fuels, fuel blends, hydraulic fluids, engine oils, and miscellaneous combustible gases and vapors.

Descriptors:

• *VAPORS
• *GASES
• *FUELS
• *HYDROCARBONS
• *LUBRICANTS
• *FLAMMABILITY
• IGNITION
• AROMATIC COMPOUNDS
• BURNING RATE
• ESTERS
• ALDEHYDES
• ALCOHOLS
• KETONES
• HYDRAULIC FLUIDS
• AUTOIGNITION
• ORGANIC SULFUR COMPOUNDS

Subject Categories:

• Physical Chemistry
• Combustion and Ignition

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE