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A thermal analysis method that separately reproduces the gas and condensed phase processes of flaming combustion in a single laboratory test is described. Anaerobic pyrolysis of solid plastics at a constant heating rate and complete thermal oxidation (nonflaming combustion) of the evolved gases provides the rate, amount, and temperatures over which heat is released by a burning solid. A physical basis for the method, the test procedure, and the relationship of flammability parameters to fire response and flame resistance of plastics are described.
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Lyon, R.E., Walters, R.N. & Stoliarov, S.I. Thermal analysis of flammability. J Therm Anal Calorim 89, 441–448 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-006-8257-z
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