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freeburn en · NOUN

Etymology

From free + burn.

Meanings

1. An unconstrained fire.
   • Envirogel was only tested against two scenarios due to agent distribution system problems. Freeburns of each fire scenario and the individual component fires were also evaluated. 1998, Ned R. Keltner, Norman J. Alvares, S. J. Grayson, Very Large-scale Fires, →ISBN, page 158:
   • Underwriters Laboratories Inc. 2 showed that rate-of-rise or rate-anticipating thermal detectors spaced as little as two feet or six feet directly above a 2½-square-foot alcohol fire, after a freeburn of 30 seconds, either did not detect at all within 30 seconds or, did so between 28 and 30 seconds. 1975, Fire Journal - Volume 69, page 55:
   • These time intervals, commencing with the completion of the incipient time period, were then referenced on a freeburn fire growth curve generated by Lee for this type fuel array, and the associated convective heat release rate determined. 1989, Takao Wakamatsu, Fire safety science: proceedings of the second international symposium:
   • In general, the scatters for all the above measurements were within those observed in freeburn crib fires. 2008, Paul A. Croce, Yibing Xin, “Scale Modeling of Quasi-Steady Wood Crib Fires in Enclosures”, in Progress in Scale Modeling, →ISBN, page 121:

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