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A fire detection system can be designed to trigger release of argon/CO2 and nitrogen in a building's air. When available oxygen is reduced to 15% (instead of the normal 21% or air), most materials will not ignite.
Language: en
Pages: 4
Pages: 4
A fire detection system can be designed to trigger release of argon/CO2 and nitrogen in a building's air. When available oxygen is reduced to 15% (instead of the normal 21% or air), most materials will not ignite.
Language: en
Pages:
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Language: en
Pages: 320
Pages: 320
When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10,1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin the perilous descent from 29,028 feet (roughly the cruising altitude of an Airbus
Language: en
Pages: 134
Pages: 134
This text examines the causes of atmospheric pollution, acid rain, ozone depletion, and global warming and explains how these conditions affect our health and econo prosperity.
Language: en
Pages: 32
Pages: 32
Summary of Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer | Includes AnalysisPreview:Into Thin Air was published in 1997 by journalist and outdoorsman Jon Krakauer. The book focuses on the events surrounding the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, of which the author was a survivor. In 1996, New Zealander mountaineering expert Robert Hall
Language: en
Pages: 138
Pages: 138
On October 31, 1905, the steamer Erie Dane departs Detroit with 114 passengers and crew. As the ship steams across Lake Erie, a storm that only occurs once a century descends upon the lake and the ship disappears. One century later on October 31, 2005, three college friends depart Sandusky
Language: en
Pages: 188
Pages: 188
Language: en
Pages: 257
Pages: 257
An old man sentimentally watches a house being torn down across the street from his own lifelong home. It is in the other house that Ralph Kempner has spent his happier days. Most were with an old woman who shared his passion and sophistication for music and literature. A few
Language: en
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Hannah Lewis’s life is exactly where she thinks it should be. But when her girlfriend, Jordan, disappears into thin air and she and Jordan’s best friend, Nikki, are drawn closer in the search, she discovers that lovers can be strangers and perceived knowledge just as illusory. The more she learns,
Language: en
Pages: 336
Pages: 336
More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA.