In summer 2008, when carrying out his normal rounds, Barry saw a private highways truck containing high-pressure gas bottles and other highly flammable items on fire only yards away from the BP petrol station on Sherwood Street in Warsop.
The ship had about 500 bags of cement destined for the Cape Sable Light aboard, and also drums of calcium carbide, that caused much concern (as it reacts with water to form the flammable gas acetylene).
Some film stock was made out of nitrate which is very flammable, so those employees working with the film operated in fireproof rooms that had self-closing fireproof doors.
The main components that developer have to be aware of in the U.K are methane (which is flammable at 5% to 15% by volume in air) and carbon dioxide (which is toxic), after two gas explosions in the U.K. in the 1980s Loscoe and Abbeystead.
Gas lighting, the use of flammable gas such as natural gas as a light source
A disused military base near Gaydon is also home to special vaults housing the highly flammable nitrate film elements of the British Film Institute's BFI National Archive, the world's largest archive of film and television.
A Molotov cocktail is a breakable glass bottle containing a flammable substance such as gasoline/petrol or a napalm-like mixture, with some motor oil added, and usually a source of ignition such as a burning cloth wick held in place by the bottle's stopper.
It consists of a metal or plastic container filled with a flammable fluid or pressurized liquid gas, a means of ignition, and some provision for extinguishing the flame.
Naphtha or white gas, a volatile flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixture used in wick type lighters
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Butane, a highly flammable, colorless, easily liquefied gas used in cigarette lighters
Krytox is a fluorether-based vacuum grease, useful from -75 to over 350 °C, not flammable even in liquid oxygen, and highly resistant to ionizing radiation.
During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Chinese historian Ban Gu recorded in the geography section of his Book of Han that a flammable liquid substance are found in the Gao Nu County, located in the northeast portion of present day Shaanxi Province.
Polgas' way of lighting the cauldron by using a slingshot and a dangling bottle of flammable liquid is reminiscent of archer Antonio Rebollo's way of lighting the cauldron in the 1992 Games opening ceremonies.
Brian J. Ford has suggested that ketosis, possibly caused by alcoholism or low-carb dieting, produces acetone, which is highly flammable and could therefore lead to apparently spontaneous combustion.
They cut through the steel door using an oxy torch – somehow avoiding igniting the highly flammable nitrate film inside – and loaded a truck with the contents to take away for disposal.
In July 2009, a large fire was started by tracer ammunition near Marseille, France, an area where shrub vegetation is very dry and flammable in the summer, and where normally this kind of ammunition should not be used.
As with all powerful liniments like Dit da jow or Iron Palm, Zheng Gu Shui has an alcohol base and is flammable.