When a substance takes fire in the atmosphere without being exposed to intense or high heat, the action is called " spontaneous combustion." Phosphorus is the only common substance which is ...

A research team led by Prof. Shen Yan'an from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) has made significant progress in studying the sources and formation mechanisms of haze. Through ...

This experiment confirms that the atmosphere has weight. 1660: Robert Boyle is perhaps the first to predict weather using the barometer. Boyle suggests that the process of combustion and ...

This project aims to address the uncertainty over the combustion behaviour of alternative fuels by a combination of an experimental and theoretical study. Laminar flames of alternative aviation fuels ...

The product of this combustion is phosphoric ... of carbon of the electric lamp. The experiments of Frankland have elicited great attention from men of science, and a controversy is at present ...

Supervisors: Professor Mohamed Pourkashanian, Professor Lin Ma and Dr Kevin Hughes. This project will combine an experimental and modelling study of an oxyfuel combustion plant with CCS. A 250kW ...

Nearly a year later, a coroner officially ruled that he'd died of a peculiar phenomenon, the Irish Independent reported — spontaneous human combustion ... Related stories Science says bodies ...

Scientists from the Heat and Mass Transfer Laboratory of Tomsk Polytechnic University have developed fuel pellets with ...

Shen Yan'an from the University of Science and Technology of China ... and formation mechanisms of haze. Through coal combustion experiments and high-precision sulfur isotope analysis, the ...