All fire articles
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BusinessFatal 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
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Puzzle
On the spot: warming fire
Should you operate a wood-burning stove while taking medical oxygen?
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News
Smoking out the chemistry of wildfires
US launches $10 million project to better understand how fires start and spread
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Review
Burning planet: the story of fire through time
Andrew C Scott’s book charts the natural history of wildfire and its ability to provide clues to events on Earth
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Research
Fire-starting battery dendrites go with the flow
Bursts of current flatten dendrites on a lithium metal anode for high power batteries
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Business
Hurricane hammers US chemical industry
Petrochemical sites along Houston’s seaboard are offline, and flooding has caused explosions at an Arkema facility
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News
Material lessons from Grenfell
Call for better testing and regulation on combustible building materials following last month’s deadly London fire
