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Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Flammables
Date: Wednesday, July 12, 2017 at 8:52:25 AM
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Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] LETTER: Beware of flammable chemical in wood stain, shed caught fire
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 14:20:39 -0400
Author: Monona Rossol

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Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] LETTER: Beware of flammable chemical in wood stain, shed caught fire
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 15:30:21 +0000
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Monona Rossol wrote:

There's your fuel and the fire-starter, PLAIN OLD TUNG OIL.  All these "natural" plant-derived setting oils will do this.

 

 

 

Is this a cousin of linseed oil, well-known self-combustible?

 

 

Debbie M. Decker, CCHO, ACS Fellow

Past Chair, Division of Chemical Health and Safety

University of California, Davis

(530)754-7964

(530)304-6728

dmdecker**At_Symbol_Here**ucdavis.edu

 

Birkett's hypothesis: "Any chemical reaction

that proceeds smoothly under normal conditions,

can proceed violently in the presence of an idiot."

 

 

 

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