Sentences with phrase «more flammable»

If you dry out that vegetation, they're going to be so much more flammable,» said Nate Stephenson, a USGS ecologist who is studying the impact of climate change in the Sierra Nevada.

It turns out the drier - than - normal conditions the area experienced during the study led to more flammable debris in plots than the researchers expected.

A dry, live forest with needles and plenty of understory fuel is more flammable.

The blue gum, as well as other species including the Harding grass, are much more flammable and better adapted to wildfires than native species.

Further, noting that mined natural resources, such as crude oil, may have widely variable chemical compositions and properties, the Safety Alert noted that crude oil being transported from the Bakken region of North Dakota may be more flammable than traditional heavy crude oil.

One thing I was told recently (possibly through this very site...) was that regular detergent is flammable - so your overalls, once washed, will be more flammable than they were before...

Across large swaths of the United States and Canada, bark beetles have killed many mature trees, making forests more flammable.

These larger fuels are more sensitive to drought conditions that existed months earlier, so it could be rightfully argued that a hotter drier July and August made these fuels more flammable in October and exacerbated the fires.

«We have put all of our resources out there... but with the drought conditions it just means everything is so much more flammable.»

Here's an example: Higher temperatures draw moisture out of live and dead trees and brush, making them more flammable.

When compared to a flat - top griddle, a deep fat fryer requires more fire - suppressing chemical because it contains more flammable fuel.

Not exact matches

Try to meet more real Christians if you can, we do nt go door to door with pitchforks, torches, or flammable crosses.

Non-fire-retardant ACM cladding can potentially be a fire risk if the aluminium sheets are melted away by the fire, exposing a flammable core material that ignites and spreads the fire more quickly.

The initiative would not only increase the cap but also would upgrade geographically specific spill response plans for state and federal officials, establish a state liquid firefighting task force that would be in charge of deploying flammable liquid firefighting foam and other supplies along rail lines across the state and provide more training for local fire crews who would often be first responders to spills.

The Government faces an estimated bill of more than # 600m for replacing flammable cladding on housing blocks after the Grenfell Tower disaster.

Feral pigs eat the flammable, invasive grasses that now cover large swaths of the islands; without them, fires could become more common and destroy more native habitat than the pigs do themselves.

The study — conducted by what was then the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, the EPA and more than 40 other public, private and academic institutions — singled out as culprits VOCs such as ethylene, a flammable gas used mainly in the production of plastics.

In deforested areas, layers of peat — sometimes dozens of meters deep — become flammable as they dry out, which is sometimes exacerbated by deliberate draining in order to make them more suitable for palm oil and timber plantations.

But as the liquid rushed from the trucks, it released a billowing vapor of far more volatile materials, including benzene and other flammable hydrocarbons.

By allowing explicit calculations on wood - litter production, these results potentially enable more explicit modelling of woody tissues in ecosystems worldwide, with implications for the build - up of flammable fuel, nutrient cycling, and understanding of plant growth.

With gasses, reactive chemicals, flammable products, and more just waiting to explode, it wouldn't be a wonder that the employee of the Pharmaceutical Industry feels like a bull in a china shop.

As the adult, look through the photos to get ideas for any resources needed, please take care if lighting a small fire with cotton wool (very flammable) Print the pages out, the next page with the activities on is the base, you may wish to stick onto card to make more durable.

The last option is highly flammable and much more dangerous than propane because it sits and accumulates on the engine.

While I believe that using cleaning solvent (or even gasoline) is more powerful than any water - with - chemicals, the vapours are highly flammable.

Aimee Bender is the author of The Girl in the Flammable Skirt (a NY Times Notable Book), An Invisible Sign of My Own (an L.A. Times pick of the year), Willful Creatures nominated by The Believer as one of the best books of... (more)

When highly pressurized canisters of flammable gas explode, it impacts more than just the apartment where the operation was being conducted.

B.J. Blazkowicz is given a sub-machine gun by one of his fellow resistance fighters very early on, while further weaponry found along the way includes a high calibre automatic rifle which is effective even in medium to long range combat, alongside pistols which are the side - arm of choice for Nazi commanders when up against a lightly armoured enemy at close range; a variation of a shotgun albeit with three barrels rapidly firing shells; hand grenades are capable of destroying certain flammable surfaces which can create an escape route for B.J. under given circumstances; and more besides.

Unfortunately, she was wearing a flammable hairspray and the resulting fright was considerably more than either had bargained on.

The plants don't seem to mind a little extra CO2, but meanwhile, we are focused on «carbon credits» and reducing CO2 while mercury pours into our fish supplies and we release enough methane to make the atmosphere flammable (see, this is how hyperbole starts — but we release a lot of methane and it's more harmful than CO2).

Combined with diminished precipitation, high temperatures in California are causing soils and vegetation to lose moisture earlier in the spring and stay dry later in the fall, meaning the landscape is flammable for more of the year.

Will there be more wildfire with the potentially higher fuel load, or perhaps a change in quantity of flammable resinous content?

«Returning more prescribed fire to the landscape can help renew ecosystems and assist landowners in reducing the accumulation of flammable vegetation.»

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Pennsylvania's Bureau of Occupational and Industrial Safety found the station to be in violation of more than 20 flammable and combustible - liquids violations during a post-accident inspection.

If a truck carrying hazardous chemicals or flammable materials is involved in an accident, the resulting injuries may be even more severe.

Extremely large tankers are very susceptible to roll - over accidents, which can be even more problematic given the fact that they carry hazardous materials that could be flammable or capable of releasing toxic fumes.

More commonly known as trimethyl aluminum, the colorless liquid is highly flammable and reactive, and it is considered to be an explosion hazard.

When highly pressurized canisters of flammable gas explode, it impacts more than just the apartment where the operation was being conducted.

Your vehicle carries more than just precious loved ones, it holds flammable materials and weighs more than 3,000 pounds.

My personal DIY disaster was more than 25 years ago, when my future husband and I had a bunch of friends on the roof of our house, removing several layers of old, thin, highly flammable and very leaky shingles.