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Formulations of ammonium phosphates and ammonium bromide are sold for use on ceUulosic—synthetic fiber blends. Other ammonium phosphate formulations contain wetting and softening agents. A large-volume, ca 9000 t/yr ia 1991, use ia the United States (48) for ammonium phosphate is ia forest fire control, usuaUy by aerial appUcation (see also Ammonium compounds). 

Macerals. Coal parts derived from different plant parts, are referred to as macerals (13). The maceral names end in "-inite" as do the mineral forms of rocks. The most abundant (about 85%) maceral in U.S. coal is vitrinite, derived from the woody tissues of plants. Another maceral, called liptinite, is derived from the waxy parts of spores and poUen, or algal remains. The liptinite macerals fluoresce under blue light permitting a subdivision based on fluorescence. A third maceral, inertinite, is thought to be derived from oxidized material or fossilized charcoal remnants of early forest fires. 

The places from which pollutants emanate are called sources. There are natural as well as anthropogenic sources of the permanent gases considered to be pollutants. These include plant and animal respiration and the decay of what was once living matter. Volcanoes and naturally caused forest fires are other natural sources. The places to which pollutants disappear from the air are called sinks. Sinks include the soil, vegetation, structures, and water bodies, particularly the oceans. The mechanisms whereby pollutants... 

Fig. 6-2, Uncontroiled forest fire. Source Information and Education Section, Oregon Department of Forestry.

Forest fire Fire cannot propagate to the site because the site is cleared plant design and fire-protection provisions a adequate to mitigate the effects Seiche Included under external flooding... 

E. V. Aibano. Critical behaviour of a forest fire model with immune trees. J Phys A (Math Gen) 27 L881-L886, 1994. 

Some naturally occurring organohalogen compounds are produced in massive quantities. Forest fires, volcanoes, and marine kelp release up to 5 million tons of CH3CI per year, for example, while annual industrial emissions... 

Silicate dust Marine High temperature processes volcanic, rock and plant emissions, forest fires Anthropogenic... 

The environmental occurrence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons is mainly associated with dispersion of oil products and with various types of combustion. For these chemicals a kind of pre-industrial background exists, due to forest fires or to domestic wood burning. The sediments of the deepest strata were certainly deposited in the nineteenth century, when no significant industrial activities had been initiated. The ratio between PAH concentrations found in the sediments dated to this century, and the deepest ones, vary from 1.7 to 30, increasing from the beginning of the... 

Chandler, V. Cheney, P. Thomas, P. Trabaud, L Williams, D. Forest Fire Management and Organization Fire in Forestry John Wiley Sons New York, NY, 1983 Vol. II. 

Carbon monoxide emissions from the terrestrial biosphere are small, but forest fires produce 0.02 Pg C/yr. Degradation of chlorophyll is dying plant material seems to be the largest CO-producing mechanism at 0.04-0.2 Pg C/yr (Freyer, 1979). 

The subsequent fate of the assimilated carbon depends on which biomass constituent the atom enters. Leaves, twigs, and the like enter litterfall, and decompose and recycle the carbon to the atmosphere within a few years, whereas carbon in stemwood has a turnover time counted in decades. In a steady-state ecosystem the net primary production is balanced by the total heterotrophic respiration plus other outputs. Non-respiratory outputs to be considered are fires and transport of organic material to the oceans. Fires mobilize about 5 Pg C/yr (Baes et ai, 1976 Crutzen and Andreae, 1990), most of which is converted to CO2. Since bacterial het-erotrophs are unable to oxidize elemental carbon, the production rate of pyroligneous graphite, a product of incomplete combustion (like forest fires), is an interesting quantity to assess. The inability of the biota to degrade elemental carbon puts carbon into a reservoir that is effectively isolated from the atmosphere and oceans. Seiler and Crutzen (1980) estimate the production rate of graphite to be 1 Pg C/yr. 

Emergency Preparedness Measures adapted to increased incidents of forest fires, insect infestations and the impacts of soil erosion. 

Cadmium (Cd) anode cells are at present manufactured based on nickel-cadmium, silver-cadmium, and mercury-cadmium couples. Thus wastewater streams from cadmium-based battery industries carry toxic metals cadmium, nickel, silver, and mercury, of which Cd is regarded the most hazardous. It is estimated that globally, manufacturing activities add about 3-10 times more Cd to the atmosphere than from natural resources such as forest fire and volcanic emissions. As a matter of fact, some studies have shown that NiCd batteries contribute almost 80% of cadmium to the environment,4,23 while the atmosphere is contaminated when cadmium is smelted and released as vapor into the atmosphere4 Consequently, terrestrial, aquatic, and atmospheric environments become contaminated with cadmium and remain reservoirs for human cadmium poisoning. 

The monoaromatic compounds benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene, commonly found in crude oil, are often jointly called BTEX compounds. The most harmful of these compounds is benzene, which is a known carcinogen. BTEX compounds occur naturally near natural gas and petroleum deposits and are detected in the fumes of forest fires. Most of the highly volatile BTEX compounds released by human activity originate from fuel use and end up as pollutants in the air. Inhaling BTEX-polluted air is also the greatest hazard to humans by these compounds. BTEX compounds are water-soluble, and therefore, improper handling can also cause groundwater contamination. 

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