Fire and Explosion Risks: A Handbook Dealing With the Detection, Investigation, and Prevention of Dangers Arising From Fires and Explosions of ... Insurance Officials, Fire Brigade Officers, - Hardcover

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Excerpt from Fire and Explosion Risks: A Handbook Dealing With the Detection, Investigation, and Prevention of Dangers Arising From Fires and Explosions of Chemico-Technical Substances and Establishments; For the Use of Fire Insurance Officials, Fire Brigade Officers, Members of the Legal Prof

The work is not designed to form an introduction to the vari able practices of Fire Insurance Companies, or a mere repetition of Trade Union regulations for the prevention of accidents; neither is it the author's intention to deal 'with all the separate branches of technology, since such a course would lead him too far away from the object in view, namely: To present non-chemists with a practical chemical tool, and to facilitate investigation of the, to them, foreign domain of chemical technology in questions of fire risk and fire prevention.

With this idea in view I have decided to make use, in many instances, of older chemical conceptions, because I regard the same as more suitable to, and readily understandable by, non-chemists, and am of Opinion that, for detecting, judging, and correctly settling cases of fire or combustion, it is more important that the non-chemist should treat and decide the matter in accordance with a standpoint he understands, rather than proceed according to new theories which he is incapable of assimilating, and which are, moreover, still subjects of scientific controversy.

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