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  1. ... of fire. Noise, dust. Smell, dust. Smoke. Fumes. Accidental smoke. Dust, danger of fire. Pollution of wa- ter. Danger of fire. Unpleasant ...
  2. NLM Digital Collections - Technician's manual 
    Publication: Fort Sam Houston, Tex. : Service School, Medical Department, Brooke General Hospital, 1943
    ... CHEMICAL TROOPS, WHITE PHOSPHOROUS (WP) PRODUCES THE BEST SMOKE AND IN ADDITION WILL CAUSE GRASS AND WOODS FIRES AND IF A PIECE OF THE BURNING PARTICLE ...
  3. ... While in this position the Indians attempted to fire the grass, and smoke the troops out, but fortunately it was too ...
  4. NLM Digital Collections - Textbooks 
    Publication: Washington, D.C. : Medical Division, Office of Civilian Defense, 1941-1942
    ... planks or heavy wooden construction but will set fire to wood shingle roofs, dry grass, ripe grain, and woods. Due to the intense white smoke produced, phosphorus bombs are more likely to produce ...
  5. ... Texan volunteers. While this was proceeding, the dry grass of the prairie took fire and swept a volume of smoke over the field, partially concealing the armies from ...
  6. NLM Digital Collections - On the rôle of insects, arachnids, and myriapods as carriers in the spread of bacterial and .... 
    Publication: Baltimore, Md., U.S.A. : Printed by the Friedenwald Company, [1899?]
    ... protection whilst the animals are at work and fires are burnt in the fields so that the smoke they gen- erate is wafted in the direction in which work is being done. Grass!°‘a (1898, I, p. 171) says that mosquitoes ...
  7. NLM Digital Collections - Principles of forensic medicine 
    Publication: New-York : Harper & Bros., 1845
    ... the cot- ton was discovered to be on fire from the thick smoke, that issued from the fore-hatchways, and in a short time the ship was entirely destroyed. In the stacking of hay, also, if the grass is not well dried, spontane- ous combustion is ...
  8. ... ide, with a hole in the roof for smoke ; more often, a rude pole structure, thatched on roof and sides with long wild grass. In the center of the one large room is an open fire ; at one end of the room may be ...
  9. ... PUBLIC see FINANCING, GOVERNMENT FIRE EXTINGUISHING SYSTEMS An accidental discharge of a Halon 1301 total flooding fire extinguishing system. Sass-Kortsak AM, et al. Am Ind Hyg Assoc J 1985 Nov; 46(11):670—3 Smoke control in hospitals. Meland O, et al. Fire ...
  10. NLM Digital Collections - Medical inquiries and observations 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Published by Anthony Finley ..., 1818
    ... domestic animals lan- guished from the want of grass and water. The earth became so inflammable in some places, as to burn above a foot below its surface. A complete consumption of the turf by an accidental fire kindled in the adjoining state of New Jersey, ...
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