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THE subject of fire-risk, prevention and extinction on oilfields is one which the public as a whole tends to take very much for granted, only being stirred to interest by press reports of oil-well fires such as occurred in Trinidad some two years ago, when thousands of pounds' worth of damage was done, or by more serious disasters on some of the American fields, involving the loss of many lives. On the other hand, those concerned with the actual control of oilfields, if not the employees themselves, are very much alive to the ever-present danger of a conflagration arising from the high degree of inflammability of petroleum and its products, and they know, usually only too well from experience, that oil-fires, from the inherent nature of the materials involved, are by far the most difficult to combat successfully.
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MILNER, H. Fire Hazards and Fire Extinction on Oilfields. Nature 112, 344–345 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112344b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/112344b0