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Re: HHR Question
Posted by:
John J. Lentini, CFEI (IP Logged)
Date: July 11, 2006 10:42PM
Doug:
Please explain why flaming combustion is necessary. It seems to me that smoldering combustion could start in such a place as a dry pet food bin, then spread from there if it made the transition to flaming, as when "smoldering nest" reaches a surface, or if another fuel contacted the smoldering mass.