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Fire 2
Title: Fire 2
Category: Science & Technology
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Fire 2
Introduction
Fire is a topic on which most people can comment. Fire is a widespread phenomenon. Most of us have seen fires in natural vegetation, or their effects; stark, blackened vegetation or a smoke pall. Because fires such as these can have damaging economic and social effects, can spoil forestry timber, can burn down houses and farms, and can kill people and animals, there has been a lot written about wildfires. Added to this wide …showed first 75 words of 3910 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 3910 total…United States 2.9 2.9 2.8
Sweden 1.6 1.5 1.6
Japan 1.5 -------- 1.5
United Kingdom 1.5 1.5 1.5
France 1.5 1.5 1.5
Australia 1.5 -------- 0.8
Germany 0.9 0.9 0.9
Switzerland 0.7 0.6 0.7
References
Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia: On compact disc (1996) [CD-ROM].
Lyons, John W. (1985). Fire. New York: Scientific American Library.
Payne, Charles A., Falls, William R., & Whidden, Charles J. (1989). Physical Science (5thed.). Iowa: Wm. C. Brown Publishers.
Whelan, Robert J. (1995). The Ecology of Fire. Great Britain: Cambridge University
Press.
United Nations Environment Program. [On-line]. Available:
http://www.grid.unep.ch/fires/
[On-line]. Available:
http://www.piad.ab.ca
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