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    <pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 21:41:53 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: A Thermometry Thread (again)</title>
      <link>http://www.forumworld.com/arson-investigations/read.php?3,13162,13174#msg-13174</link>
      <author>Fire</author>
      <description><![CDATA[I agree when you going to move over. LOL]]></description>
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      <title>Re: A Thermometry Thread (again)</title>
      <link>http://www.forumworld.com/arson-investigations/read.php?3,13162,13171#msg-13171</link>
      <author>PMK140</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Yeah.  That pesky science keeps getting in the way. Doesn't it?

The days of origin, cause, and responsibility opinions, without a knowledge of basic fire science are numbered.  The options for modern professional fire investigators and analysts are: lead, follow, or get out of the way.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:27:59 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: A Thermometry Thread (again)</title>
      <link>http://www.forumworld.com/arson-investigations/read.php?3,13162,13170#msg-13170</link>
      <author>Fire</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Well first of all watch that typing thing it gets people mad in here lol. Thanks Pat for the run down. It sounds like this is more for the fire science engineer then as an after the fact to answer a questions about the fire the come forward not during the actual investigation part.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:18:23 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: A Thermometry Thread (again)</title>
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      <author>PMK140</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Nothing besdies the typing.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 14:29:24 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Re: A Thermometry Thread (again)</title>
      <link>http://www.forumworld.com/arson-investigations/read.php?3,13162,13163#msg-13163</link>
      <author>J L Mazerat</author>
      <description><![CDATA[OK, What is wrong with your explanation?]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 11:55:07 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>A Thermometry Thread (again)</title>
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      <author>PMK140</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Fire Wrote:
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&gt; Not trying to start a fight but I have never used
&gt; this in a fire scene. So when is it good to use
&gt; it. Thermometry that is.

Thermometry is seldom, if ever needed at the fire scene.  It is frequently used during the post-scene analysis, or in cases of fire safety or code compliance cases in which the various physics or thermodynamic formulae present themselves.

Using these techniques, such as Ideal Gas Law, Flash Point comparisons of various ignitable liquids, comparison of material ignition temperatures and responses to heat, etc., when the temperature input data must be either determined in the laboratory or from references. These are consideration mostly used in fire analysis rather than mere fire scene investigation.

As I have mentioned before, the best example of the need for a basic understanding of thermometry and how and when to use it is the individual who thinks that 100 degrees Fahrenheit is twice and hot as 50 degrees F.; or that liquid “A” with a point of 50 C. is twice as susceptible to ignition as liquid “B” with a flash point of 100 C.

But most telling of all is the evaluation of the professional competence of a “fire investigator” who doesn’t know simple thermometry or how and when t needs to be applied. Since that individual s qualifications do not meet NFPA Standard 1033.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 08:25:14 -0500</pubDate>
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