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Article: UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK: Burning gas cylinders no lo longer face becoming a giant flame thrower or a bomb.
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- M2 Presswire
- Article date:
- August 25, 1999
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M2 PRESSWIRE-25 August 1999-UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK: Burning gas cylinders no longer face hobson's choice between becoming a giant flame thrower or a bomb (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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Until now gas cylinders caught in large fires have faced a rather stark choice. Either they use pressure sensitive valves to vent of their gas before it gets too hot - which can often result in the venting gas igniting in a flame-thrower affect - or if this fails they can just wait until they are so hot that they explode. Sometimes they have no choice at all, exploding because the temperature has risen so steeply that there has not been time to vent all the ...