All fire articles
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BusinessChemical plant fire in Pakistan kills at least 17 workers
Blocked windows and exits hampered rescue efforts
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Business
Massive fire at UK polyurethanes plant
One worker remains missing a week after Leamington Spa incident
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Business
Fire in Russian chemical plant kills one, injures six
Government to investigate a fatal fire at military production facility in southern Russia
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Business
Deadly explosion and fire at chemicals park in Germany
At least 2 dead and 31 injured when an explosion led to a solvent tank fire in Leverkusen
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Research
Struvite recovered from wastewater could be used to suppress wildfires
Experiments show struvite-suspended hydrogel is as good at fighting fire as a commercial ammonium polyphosphate-based formulation
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Business
Deadly fire in Indian chemical factory
Blaze killed 18 workers, mainly women, who were trapped inside SVS Aqua Technologies plant
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Business
Fatal explosion at US paint and polymers plant
One dead and nine others injured as building partially collapsed after explosion and fire
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Business
Fatal explosion at US chemical plant
Blast at Optima facility killed one and injured three others
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Opinion
Letters: October 2020
Readers sniff out some chemicals and share how they would respond in an emergency
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Business
Questions surround deadly Beirut blast
Ammonium nitrate explosion that killed at least 135 appears to have been caused by poorly-stored cargo from an abandoned vessel
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Feature
The complex chemistry of fire
Despite its ubiquity in human life, chemists have still barely unlocked what’s happening amid the flames. Kit Chapman reports
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Research
How the products of fire control the formation of snow
Nadine Borduas-Dedekind brings an organic chemist’s arrow-pushing insight to reactions in the atmosphere
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Business
Deadly explosion at ethylene oxide plant in Spain
Two employees killed and seven others injured at Iqoxe plant in Tarragona
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Research
Neanderthals were master fire-starters, cave chemistry suggests
A new study distinguishes chemical traces left by ancient hearth fires from those left by natural wildfires
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Business
Leaking filter caused deadly explosion at US plant
Blast that killed one and injured 30 others at a KMCO facility in Texas was caused by hole in pipe component
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Feature
Firing up an air pollution problem
Wild fires adversely affect air quality nearby and far beyond. Nina Notman investigates this escalating problem
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News
Fire damages chemistry labs at University of St Andrews
Cause of blaze in biomedical sciences building still unknown
