Combustion fuels for

In 1978, people of the Dow Company proposed the hypothesis that PCDDs are byproducts of common combustion and, therefore, have always been present in the environment. In one study (20), wood was selected as a combustion fuel for a survey study of PCDD emissions. This study suggested that additional research was necessary to confirm this hypothesis and to characterize the magnitude of this newly defined source. A recent review of the fire hypothesis is given in reference 21. 

Carburant(Fr). Combustible fuel for engines or rocket motors... 

A budding organic chemist might wonder why a simple two-carbon molecule such as acetylene could be of so much chemical interest and value, beyond its use as a combustible fuel for devices such as cutting... 

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