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    Natural gas (also called fossil gas, methane gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane...
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    flutter as if gas was leaking. Others reported seeing a dim blue flame – possibly static electricity, or St. Elmo's Fire – moments before the fire on top and...
    111 KB (13,527 words) - 15:24, 5 April 2024
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    Fireplace (redirect from Gas fireplace logs)
    Wood-burning fireplace with fire dogs A gas-powered fireplace Electric fireplace Traditional Serbian Ognjište Ventless fireplaces (duct free/room-venting fireplaces)...
    29 KB (3,284 words) - 19:08, 2 April 2024
  • city" in Corner Gas. On 28 September 2014, the building that was used as the FOO[D] MAR[KE]T, the local grocery store, was destroyed in a fire. On 4 November...
    77 KB (9,884 words) - 10:08, 11 April 2024
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    gas stove is a stove that is fuelled by combustible gas such as natural gas, propane, butane, liquefied petroleum gas, syngas, or other flammable gas...
    39 KB (4,359 words) - 04:18, 4 April 2024
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    Aerostat (section Coal gas)
    and στατός (statós) 'standing', via French) is a lighter-than-air aircraft that gains its lift through the use of a buoyant gas. Aerostats include unpowered...
    13 KB (1,852 words) - 05:02, 5 March 2024
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    Chlorine (redirect from Chlorine gas)
    chloride (corrosive sublimate), and aqua regia. However, the nature of free chlorine gas as a separate substance was only recognised around 1630 by Jan Baptist...
    113 KB (12,719 words) - 19:41, 20 March 2024
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    the physical characteristics of the contents. A typical gas cylinder design is elongated, standing upright on a flattened bottom end, with the valve and...
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  • Piper Alpha (category Natural gas platforms)
    but later converted to add gas production. Piper Alpha exploded and collapsed under the effect of sustained gas jet fires in the night between 6 and 7...
    112 KB (12,338 words) - 03:40, 4 April 2024
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    catastrophic oil or gas fire. Prior to the advent of pressure control equipment in the 1920s, the uncontrolled release of oil and gas from a well while...
    46 KB (4,771 words) - 19:17, 10 January 2024
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    industrial material, used, for example, as an inert gas in welding and fire extinguishers, as a pressurizing gas in air guns and oil recovery, and as a supercritical...
    112 KB (12,908 words) - 19:59, 24 April 2024
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    was not insured. Including fire suppression costs, the total cost of the fire was approximately $16.65 billion. Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E)...
    151 KB (15,372 words) - 01:39, 19 April 2024
  • The oil and gas industry uses many acronyms and abbreviations. This list is meant for indicative purposes only and should not be relied upon for anything...
    97 KB (11,918 words) - 08:59, 15 April 2024
  • solid fuel Bunsen burner – Laboratory device used to make fire from fuel and oxidizer gases Candle – Wick embedded in solid flammable substance Ember –...
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    blew across the river and landed on roofs and the South Side Gas Works.: 148  With the fire across the river and moving rapidly toward the heart of the...
    49 KB (5,402 words) - 14:06, 18 April 2024
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    Waco siege (category Deaths from fire in the United States)
    the fire, are disputed by various sources. Department of Justice reports from October 1993 and July 2000 conclude that although incendiary tear gas canisters...
    181 KB (20,323 words) - 15:46, 23 April 2024
  • he can take advantage of the restorative powers of the numismaton gas within the fire mountain. Turlough realises the imminent volcanic bursts will destroy...
    12 KB (1,103 words) - 15:37, 25 January 2024
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    Stove (section Usage of gas)
    compact size, the stove could be housed in a large fireplace or used free-standing in the middle of a room by connecting it to a chimney. Developed amid...
    45 KB (5,634 words) - 16:48, 25 April 2024
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    Will-o'-the-wisp (redirect from Fool's fire)
    succeeded in setting fire to the paper. He was also able to extinguish the flame by driving it before him to a part of the ground where no gas was produced;...
    47 KB (5,775 words) - 09:11, 31 March 2024
  • M60 machine gun (redirect from Free Gun)
    of fire. An unusual arrangement of the M60B was done by HA(L)-3 squadron aircrew by removing the sights, shortening the barrel inline to the gas block...
    65 KB (7,410 words) - 00:04, 26 April 2024
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