BEHAVIOUR IN FIRE

This section attempts to answer two questions related to the behaviour of aluminium castings and wrought aluminium semi-products in fire  

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Bourke A. F. G. (2002) Genetics of social behaviour in fire ants. Trends in Genetics 18, 221-223. 

Szabo, A. and Szalontai, I. Comparison of glass carboys with polyethylene cans storing organic solvents with respect to their behaviour in fire (in Hungarian). Muanyag is Gumi, 1, No. 3, 77 (1964)... 

Tesson, M. 2009 Adapting the road tunnel safety devices to the users. 4th Sysmposium on Human Behaviour in Fire 375-386. 

Radel A PES resin is used for transparent and high temperature resistant parts with good chemical resistance, good behaviour in fire, RTI up to 180 °C. 

To assess suitability of plastic storage containers for distribution of silver nitrate, behaviour under fire exposure conditions of various polymers in contact with the salt was examined. All polymers tested burned vigorously. 

Finally, the MCR-2X catalyst manufactured by Haldor Tops0e, whose behaviour in the Adam I reactor was described above (see Figure 3 and Table 1), should be mentioned. This is almost certainly composed of nickel and molybdenum supported on Zr02-Al203 and fired at high temperatures.111 The other catalyst, MCR-4, used in the test discussed above for the second and third reactors, may be a more conventional Ni-Mg0-Al203 formulation.91... 

Drysdale, D.D. Fundamentals of the fire behaviour of cellular polymers. In Fire and Cellular Polymers, Buist, J.M., Grayson, S.J., Woolley, W.D., Eds. Elsevier Applied Science London, U.K., 1986 pp. 61-75. 

Fire Master FF-1 caused a longer sexual cycle in monkeys [5], and PBBs caused decreased egg production and nesting behaviour in Japanese quail [86]. One recent study reported that in mice PBB (di-BBs and tetra-BBs) reduced the in vitro fertilisation rate at higher dosages. Furthermore, an increased incidence of abnormal two-cell embryos and degenerative ococytes was observed at the 1 and 10 mg/ml concentration of PBB [87]. PBBs also affect the regulation of steroid hormones. The extent depends on the species as well as the dose and duration of exposure. 

Lind, T., Kauppincn, E.I., Jokiniemi, J.K., Maenhaut, W., and Pakkanen, T.A., Alkali metal behaviour in atmospheric circulation fluidised bed coal combustion , The Impact of Ash Deposits on Coal Fired Plants, Ed. Williamson, J. Wigley, F., (1993) Solihull, Bimiingham, UK, pp, 77-88. 

Basic raw material are low-grade, coloured-firing clays. Non-plastic substances are added in the form of sand, slag, fly-ash, etc. The proportions added are given by the required forming properties and behaviour on firing. 

Polymer clay nanocomposites have, for some time now, been the subject of extensive research into improving the properties of various matrices and clay types. It has been shown repeatedly that with the addition of organically modified clay to a polymer matrix, either in-situ (1) or by melt compounding (2), exfoliation of the clay platelets leads to vast improvements in fire retardation (2), gas barrier (4) and mechanical properties (5, 6) of nanocomposite materials, without significant increases in density or brittleness (7). There have been some studies on the effect of clay modification and melt processing conditions on the exfoliation in these nanocomposites as well as various studies focusing on their crystallisation behaviour (7-10). Polyamide-6 (PA-6)/montmorillonite (MMT) nanocomposites are the most widely studied polymer/clay system, however a systematic study relating the structure of the clay modification cation to the properties of the composite has yet to be reported. 

This book is a collection of the physical properties of most commonly used solvents along with information on their behaviour in the environment during and after use and their health and fire hazards. 

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