Citation

Hilado CJ, Casey CJ, Schneider JE. Fire Technol. 1979; 15(2): 122-129.

Affiliation

Fire Safety Center, University of San Francisco, USA

Copyright

(Copyright © 1979, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/BF01983757

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The relative toxicity of the pyrolysis gases from some plastics can vary considerably, depending on the temperature at which the material is pyrolyzed and other test conditions. Because a large number of test conditions can exist at some particular place and time during a fire, depending on the type of fire, the differences illustrate the importance of selecting test conditions that are relevant to the particular fire environment.